Title: [plugin: web scraper shortcode] how to get target elements?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [plugin: web scraper shortcode] how to get target elements?

 *  Resolved [jiri2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jiri2/)
 * (@jiri2)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-web-scraper-shortcode-how-to-get-target-elements/)
 * The rules of this plugin say:
 * > The element is the target element of the content from the remote page you would
   > like.
   >  You could specify the body element if you would like the entire page,
   > or you could specify something like div#div_id_name to get the contents of 
   > that specific div.
 * But what does that mean? I mean, I understand that in order to get our content
   on a blog post we have to write ‘[web-scraper]’, but where do we have to do the
   specifying?
 * Also if we want the 5th of a dozen div ids available, can we specify that specific
   div? Can we scrape a div on the basis of it being the first div when the contents
   inside the div will be constantly changing?
 * And where do we define the webpage we want scraped?
 * thanks, it looks like a very nice plugin but I don’t think there are many instructions
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/web-scraper-shortcode/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/web-scraper-shortcode/)

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 *  Plugin Author [ChrisHurst](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrishurst/)
 * (@chrishurst)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-web-scraper-shortcode-how-to-get-target-elements/#post-3315453)
 * Please see the plugin screenshots which contain examples that should help you
   to get started.
 * If you require further support, please contact us via our website and we would
   be happy to help. If you contact us you should include the url of the page you
   would like to scrape and a description of the info you would like to grab. We
   would be happy to send you an example of the shortcode with the criteria mentioned.
 * Thank You!
 *  Thread Starter [jiri2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jiri2/)
 * (@jiri2)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-web-scraper-shortcode-how-to-get-target-elements/#post-3315482)
 * Hi
    Ok, I contacted you through the website contact feature yesterday. Did you
   receive my inquiry? thank you

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 * Last reply from: [jiri2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jiri2/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-web-scraper-shortcode-how-to-get-target-elements/#post-3315482)
 * Status: resolved