Obtain Todays Date (DD)

[mc84usa]

I was wondering how I could obtain today’s date (MM-DD-YYYY) on a scrape, more specifically, the numerical value for the day; for example, if 06-21-2023, I would like to obtain the day, which would be 21.

[newuserkantu]

You can use split command to cut a part of the date

Split and/or Trim

Split code working like a charm tested ! { "Name": "Split_Function", "CreationDate": "2019-10-26", "Commands": [ { "Command": "store", "Target": "11111-22222", "Value": "Col" }, { "Command": "executeScript_Sandbox", "Target": "return ${Col}.split(\"-\")[0].trim();", "Value": "First_Part" }, { "Command": "echo", "Target": "${First_Part}", "Value": "" }, { "Command": "executeScript_Sandbox", "Targe…

[mc84usa]

@newuserkantu, thanks for the reply so basically i would just need to split the date a third time to remove mm-dd-yyyy?

However, how would you suggest obtaining today’s date as I did not find today’s date in the source code for the site? Currently, 1/2 of the team is on Macs and 1/2 on Windows…

[uiuser]

{
      "Command": "executeScript",
      "Target": "\nvar d= new Date(); return d.getDate().toString().padStart(2, \"0\");",
      "Value": "Date",
      "Description": ""
    }

[mc84usa]

Your the best I just located the following as well:

Have Today's Date Entered

Loving this program; having an issue though conceptually and have looked for hours on how to do this. I am automating a file download where you have to enter a start and ending date. Start date is always fixed, has to be in 01/01/18 format, however the ending date needs to be today’s date, in that format. Is there not a built in variable that just uses today’s date that I can then use in a ‘type’ command as the value? Not sure if I have to use some code in ‘target’ using ‘storevalue’ to take…

var d= new Date(); var d=(d.getDate()); return d;

[mc84usa]

@uiuser

"Command": "executeScript",
      "Target": "\nvar d= new Date(); return d.getDate().toString().padStart(2, \"0\");",
      "Value": "Date",
      "Description": ""

@uiuser

What is the difference between using your version and the following:

var d= new Date(); var d=(d.getDate()); return d;```

[uiuser]

@mc84usa

var d= new Date(); var d=(d.getDate()); return d;

use this
gives same result

[newuserkantu]

Solution provided by @uiuser it is much easier compared to using the split command