Replay a macro and save last response

UI.Vision RPA
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Hello, I’m trying to use RPA to check updates on a web site.
What I need to check is if a particular JSON response has changed since the last check.
To get to that JSON, I need a sequence of steps, starting from login and with a few navigation steps.

I recorded the macro and I am able to reply it, but I don’t know how to save the last response (the JSON).
Next I wolud like to understand if RPA can check the latest online JSON with the last saved one.

Thank you!

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Hi, how do you get the JSON? Is it just displayed in the browser like with this ocr api call?

https://api.ocr.space/parse/imageurl?apikey=helloworld&url=http://i.imgur.com/fwxooMv.png

3

Well, no: it is used by the page to show a sort of calendar. Can I work on the resulting page?

4

So the JSON is only “inside the web page” and not visibly displayed anywhere?

Do you have a link to the website, or a similar one?

Two ideas:

  • If the data is in the page source code, use sourceExtract

  • If the data is “in the Javascript”, try to get it with some Javascript that you run in ExecuteScript

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No, the JSON cames alone with a single HTTP Get Request triggered by some JS (I suppose). It has no parameters, so I understand the web site uses my user context to know what to send me.

I can’t think of anything similar without signing up, but using Chrome dev tools (or Fiddler) you’ll see just what I described above.

I recorded the macro and it replays up to the page I need and it gets loaded. Well, I don’t need to check che JSON necessarily, I could check the resulting HTML, but I don’t know how to do this: what should I add at the end of the macro?

Thank you!

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Any idea?
As I said, the json comes from a request, but it is rendered in a sort of calendar