Introduction: Scraping data is a powerful tool in automation, but ensuring the accuracy and functionality of your scraping flows is essential. In this blog post, we'll dive into a step-by-step guide on how to debug your scraping flows and verify the data being sent to your Google sheet effectively.

Debugging Your Scraping Flows: When it comes to debugging scraping flows, one of the most efficient methods is utilizing the recording feature in your automation tool. By recording your steps, you can easily identify where the flow may be encountering issues and make necessary adjustments.

Troubleshooting Scraped List Steps: Scraped list steps play a significant role in scraping data accurately. Here's how you can troubleshoot and ensure the correctness of your scraped list steps:

Data Verification and Export: Verifying the accuracy of your scraped data and ensuring its successful export to your Google sheet is vital for data integrity. Here's how you can validate and export your scraped data efficiently:

Conclusion: Mastering the art of debugging scraping flows and verifying data accuracy is essential for successful automation and data processing. By following the steps outlined in this guide, you can enhance the efficiency and reliability of your scraping list flows, ensuring seamless data extraction and export to your desired destination.

Step 1- Click on + green icon

Step 2- Click on record

Step 3- Click on all play buttons one by one to check the automation

Step 4- Click on Scrape a list

Step 5- Click on Play steps to check the automation

Step 6-We can see all the exporting data which can be downloaded to CSV and JSON

So a really easy way to debug your scraping flows and see why they may or may not be sending data to your Google sheet. Is my personal favorite at least is going into your automation and then clicking the plus icon and then record. And what this does is this launches the window when you are recording with all of your steps so that you can edit, test, delete, or add more as you need.

So you can see it ran our first step taking us here. We can always run this step if it didn't take us to that first URL. Sometimes it takes you take you, sometimes it will take you somewhere else, uh, depending on where you. Clicked in your list. Then we can click play next to step two to see that it clicks this correctly.

Then with scraped list steps, if your scraped list step step is working and everything is correct with it, when we click play here, we'll see all of those items highlight green on the screen, just like when it runs our automation normally. Then when I click the next one, we'll see that this highlights the next.

I don't think I clicked it. Oh, I guess I found one not working. So what we can do is we can delete this plus scrape list. And then I'll go ahead and grab what it wasn't grabbing before. So now I'll click here. We'll get the first one. I'll click here and now we'll get the second one. Then another way is if we click play steps for this automation, we can see all of the logs for it on the right here in traffic control.

So if I look over here, This will start up and it'll start telling me what steps have ran. And if it's a scrape step, it'll tell me how many rows have been found. So in a second here, we'll see that it found 50 results for both. So we should expect if our Google sheet is set up, that it sends these 50 rows.

We can also see some of the scrape data, even though there'll be some junk in here at the moment. Um, we can see the usernames and the names that we had scraped there. We could download this as a CSV or as A-J-S-O-N if for whatever reason it didn't export the data to our Google sheet. But normally what happens is that this scrape result link will say zero, and you'll just want to rerecord or a, um, adjust that step.