Crawl HTML - a href problem

alex85de

I would like to use the crawler from JA Social Feed to read content.
Now I have the problem that I can't get the URL from an a href object in "Identity Code Settings".

The structure of the website is as follows:

If I understand your documentation ("correctly I should be able to read the URL with the following value:

If I now try to verify I get the following error:
"Unknown argument string"

Does anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong?

saguaros

alex85de

Perhaps this topic can help you: https://www.joomlart.com/forums/d/34075-unknown-argument-string/12

alex85de

saguaros

thank you for the feedback. I just had a look at the link but didn't get any smarter.
Does anyone have an example of how to get the URL from a href?

saguaros

alex85de Could you share the URL of admin account of your site so I can replicate the issue?

alex85de

saguaros
I added the data...

saguaros

alex85de The provided account doesn't work, could you check again?

alex85de

saguaros
sorry my mistake. Please try again.

saguaros

alex85de Let me check and will get back to you.

saguaros

Your site seems to prevent JA Social Feed plugin from saving.

Could you try to add identity as you wish in the plugin settings? Then let me know if it doesn't work, I will check for you.

alex85de

saguaros

I have no idea what happened but after a restore of the page the saving is now working again. Strangely, nothing new was installed and all other plugins / components are the same.

My config is also in there.

manhta

alex85de
Hi,
1. Ja Social Feed needs the access to file plugins/system/jasocial_feed/adminj4.php to save settings, so please allow it on htaccess Maker
2. To use crawler, you must have good knowledge about html and css selector.
3. I've updated the plugin's configuration for you. Now it may successfully crawls content, but as i check, some parts of article are missing. That's because they are rendered by javascript and our plugin couldn't understand javascript at this time.

alex85de

manhta

A big THANK YOU for the help. Now works as desired.
Here is the solution for all, if someone has the same problems.

Should Akeeba Admin Tools be in use, an exception in the .htaccess maker is needed that JA Social Feed can save the profiles:

And here is the solution to read the href value of the above example:

saguaros

alex85de Thanks for your sharing!