In an effort to make the creation of robots even easier, Robot Studio now has a dab of AI magic added that helps you with the scraping of lists.
Recommended dataset
When you select the list you'd like to scrape, your robot immediately starts scanning the items in order to detect the most relevant data points in those list items.
In a matter of seconds, you'll have yourself a recommended dataset.
NOTE: If you know you’d rather train the robot manually, you can do so by clicking the “Select Manually Instead” button on the bottom right. Then "Cancel Edits".
Or if you're fast enough while the robot is scanning your list (it seriously only takes a matter of seconds for this process to finish), you can also click this button in the right-hand sidebar:
Auto-labeled columns and lists
As part of detecting the dataset to extract, your robot will automatically and intelligently name your data columns and the list itself, saving you even more time!
And if you’d like to manually rename the column, you can easily do so:
QUICK TIP: After you rename the column, make sure to press Enter to save the new name. Otherwise, if you simply click outside of the box it won't be saved.
Deleting columns
You can also remove columns entirely, if you’re not interested in extracting the data.
Before saving the list, you can do it this way:
After saving the list, you can use the right-hand sidebar as shown below:
Renaming or deleting the list
Much like you can rename and delete data columns inside your list, you can do the same with the list itself (only before you've saved the captured list, however).
Here’s how to rename a list:
And here’s how to delete a list:
QUICK TIP: You first have to save the captured list in order to then be able to delete it. Otherwise, you would click on Select Manually Instead, rather than Save Captured List.
Known limitations
There are a few limitations currently, and we hope to address these based on user needs and feedback:
It's not possible to keep the suggested data items and "enrich" it with extra fields of your choosing. Selecting the manual option means you identify all of the fields yourself.
Once you've saved the captured list you are not able to rename it. Renaming the list must be done before you've clicked on "Save Captured List".
Similarly, you can only rename data columns before you've saved the list.