Trying to scrape some data from Html

Steve_Huang · January 2, 2020, 4:19am

Background: Just started using home assistant, very limited programming skill
I want to get some info from this simple webpage created by my fish tank KH monitor, and I tried to use the scrape sensor. I read the info on scrape and things just went over my head. The webpage is intranet so I can’t give a web address, but this is screen capture from chrome’s developer screen. The value I tried to capture is kH and pH. Can anyone help?

phixion · January 2, 2020, 2:34pm

here’s a simple one that I use it returns the version number - maybe it helps you:

github.com

phixion/Home-AssistantConfig/blob/04b973f471edb53d6c4194a560ba6f99c5e9854e/configuration.yaml#L182-L185


- platform: scrape
  name: HA upstream
  resource: https://pypi.org/project/homeassistant/#history
  select: 'a[href^="/project/homeassistant/0"]'

Steve_Huang · January 3, 2020, 1:36am

Thanks, I will give this a try

phixion · January 4, 2020, 2:46pm

any luck? maybe I can help

Steve_Huang · January 10, 2020, 12:54am

Thank you. Been busy learning python and writing a script for this. I have made good progress. Thank you again