Extract from Page

This brick allows you to read the data associated with a specific jQuery selector. In plain English, this means you can use this brick to extract data from a webpage. The mouse icon in the selector field will allow you to hover over a page to find a section that you want to reference later in your mod.

For example, maybe you want to reference a company title on a LinkedIn page or the number of reviews on a Glassdoor page. Selecting the part of the page that consistently saves that text allows PixieBrix to search it every time and grab the value dynamically.

In most cases, you don't need to know anything about jQuery to use this brick, but if you'd like to perform advanced data extraction or are unable to find what you need consistently, you might find that manually setting the jQuery selector with any of the supported selector extensions can help you fine-tune what is extracted from the page.

Use Case

• Grab the content of a particular element by using the mouse icon to show where the data lives on a page layout
• Use advanced syntax in the selector to find elements based on their inputs i.e. :contains, :nth-child

Mods Using This Brick

• Save Product Hunt Finds to a Trello Board

Tutorials Using This Brick

• Search Yelp Reviews from OpenTable
• Create a Status Nudge Button In GitHub