Length Post-processing Function

Length Post-processing Function can be used to get the length of the value in our extracted field result. For example, I have this scraping agent “Length Function Example(Post-Processing)” in my account and I want to get the length of product field Name for some internal use. So, We can use the Length Post-Processing Function to get the characters length in particular field.

Before

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Steps

1. Add a new field name something like I did, field Name Length and selector will be same as for product field Name

2. Now, Click on the Add Post-Processing button to add the Length Post-Processing function, The below dialog box will appear

   

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3. There is no parameter requires in this function, so just adding this is enough

4. Then Save the function and the scraping agent configuration

5. And finally re-run you agent to apply the changes.

After Length Function

Now,if we look the updated result, we have a length of product Name in a new field called Name Length where we can see the actual number of characters in this field.

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