Friend request regex regular scrapebox request

1. <span class="tag[^>]*>: This matches the opening <span> tag that contains class="tag. The [^>]* part allows for any characters except the closing angle bracket >, enabling the regex to match until the end of the opening tag.
2. \s*: This matches any whitespace characters (like spaces, tabs, or newlines) that might be present.
3. <span class="tag__label">: This matches the opening <span> tag for the class tag__label.
4. \s*(Valid)\s*: This captures the word "Valid", allowing for any surrounding whitespace. The parentheses create a capture group for "Valid", making it easy to extract this specific part of the match.
5. </span>\s*</span>: This matches the closing </span> tags for both tag__label and tag classes, allowing for whitespace in between.

loopline said:

I mean........

I literally copied your post and pasted it into chat gpt and hit enter......






To extract the word "Valid" from the provided HTML code using regex, you can use a pattern that targets the specific structure of the HTML. The regex needs to account for the opening <span> tags, the text "Valid", and the closing </span> tags. Here's a regex pattern that should work for this purpose:
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<span class="tag[^>]*>\s*<span class="tag__label">\s*(Valid)\s*</span>\s*</span>
Explanation of the Regex:

1. <span class="tag[^>]*>: This matches the opening <span> tag that contains class="tag. The [^>]* part allows for any characters except the closing angle bracket >, enabling the regex to match until the end of the opening tag.
2. \s*: This matches any whitespace characters (like spaces, tabs, or newlines) that might be present.
3. <span class="tag__label">: This matches the opening <span> tag for the class tag__label.
4. \s*(Valid)\s*: This captures the word "Valid", allowing for any surrounding whitespace. The parentheses create a capture group for "Valid", making it easy to extract this specific part of the match.
5. </span>\s*</span>: This matches the closing </span> tags for both tag__label and tag classes, allowing for whitespace in between.

This regex assumes that the structure of the HTML remains consistent with what you've provided. If there are variations in the HTML structure, the regex may need to be adjusted accordingly. Also, remember that regex is generally not recommended for parsing HTML, as HTML can be complex and not always regular. For more robust HTML parsing, it's usually better to use an HTML parser specific to the programming language you are working with.




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as for my 2 cents that is not from chat gpt:
Scrapebox uses PCRE, which is Perl Compatible Regular Expressions https://www.google.com/search?q=Perl+Compatible+Regular+Expressions&ie=utf-8



Any regex should have the leading ^ and ending $ removed. This means match the start and end of the line, however when scraping stuff from HTML the data isn’t going to sit perfectly on the start and end of a line of source code there’s going to be other HTML and content before and after the data being scraped.

The regex here should all work http://www.regexlib.com/Search.aspx?k=phone number but if it starts with ^ and ends with $ they simply need to be removed.

Also of note is that Chat gpt informs me that the above that it generated is also PCRE compliant, so it should work with Scrapebox.

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Smackhead said:

<span class="tag__label">\s*(Valid)\s*</span>

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proxygo said:

@loopline ive been on vacation 2 weeks
i have no idea what your on about

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