How to extract from tags

servicenow14710 · ‎11-20-2024

Hello developers,

I have an implementation where i get api 400 error and it is returning response in this format:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Found</h1>
<p>The requested URL was not found on this server.</p>
</body></html>

From the above response i need to extract what is inside <p> tags. Any help is appreciated, Thanks!

KrishanSharma · ‎11-20-2024

Hello,

You can extract URL from the <p> tag as follows:

var str = "YOUR_RESPONSE";
var url = str.substring(str.indexOf('<p>')+3, str.indexOf('</p>'));

Hope it helps 🙂

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KrishanSharma · ‎11-20-2024

Hello,

You can extract URL from the <p> tag as follows:

var str = "YOUR_RESPONSE";
var url = str.substring(str.indexOf('<p>')+3, str.indexOf('</p>'));

Hope it helps 🙂

Harish Murikina · ‎11-20-2024

Hi @servicenow14710

You can get the value on client side something like below, not sure if you are looking to get on server or client.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html><head>
<script>

function getPtag() {
alert(document.getElementsByTagName("P")[0].innerHTML)
}

</script>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Found</h1>
<p>The requested URL was not found on this server.</p>
<button onClick="getPtag()" name="GET TAG">GET TAG</button>

</body></html>

Regards,
Harish Murikinati.

GlideFather · ‎11-20-2024

Try something like the code below:

var startTag = '<p>';

var endTag = '</p>';

var startIndex = htmlContent.indexOf(startTag) + startTag.length;

var endIndex = htmlContent.indexOf(endTag);

if (startIndex > -1 && endIndex > -1 && startIndex < endIndex) {

var extractedText = htmlContent.substring(startIndex, endIndex).trim();

gs.print("Extracted Text: " + extractedText);

}

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