Agenty allows to add built-in Post-processing functions with result fields to easily clean and manipulate the agent’s field result. For more clarification what is post -processing technique in data mining or web scraping take an example.
If you have a Price field in your agent with a dollar ($) symbol but don’t want that symbol in your agent result. Here, you can use the built-in Replace function to replace the $ with blank "" by passing the parameters.
There are many post processing technique available in Agenty, to use by passing the different parameters available on each function to manipulate the field result.
The post-processing function executes in parallel for each input URL while the agent is running. So, when a Post-processing function is enabled, you will see the processed result by-default in your result table. While the Post-Processing feature in Scripting run after the agent job is completed and keeps both the result Original and Modified accessible on portal or via API.
| Function | Description |
|---|---|
| Append | To append a value after the field result |
| AutoFillBlankCells | This function is deprecated in Agenty 2.0, use scripting instead |
| Concat | This function is deprecated in Agenty 2.0, use scripting instead |
| Contains | To check if given value contains in the field and returns True or False
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| CountWords | This function is deprecated in Agenty 2.0, use scripting instead |
| DefaultValue | This function is deprecated in Agenty 2.0, use default fields instead |
| DeleteRows | This function is deprecated in Agenty 2.0, use Filter method available in scripting instead |
| EndsWith | To check if field value ends with particular character and return True or False
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| Equals | To check if the given parameter is equal to field result and return True or False. |
| IndexOf | This function is deprecated in Agenty 2.0, use scripting instead |
| Insert | To insert something before the field result. |
| Regex | To extract something from the field result using regular expressions. |
| StartsWith | To check if the field result start with the given parameter and returns True or False. |
| Length | To get the length of the field result. |
| Remove | To remove something from the field result using start index and length (the number of characters needs to be removed.) |
| Replace | To replace some text with other in the field result |
| Substring | To extract a part of field result |
| ToLower | To transform the field results in lowercase characters. |
| ToUpper | To transform the field results in uppercase characters. |
| Trim | This function is deprecated in Agenty 2.0, use scripting instead. |
| TrimEnd | This function is deprecated in Agenty 2.0, use scripting instead |
| TrimStart | This function is deprecated in Agenty 2.0, use scripting instead. |
| Unescape | This function is deprecated in Agenty 2.0, use scripting instead |
