I want to extract the "Job #" from a website in Chrome and save it to a variable. This will be similar to the example below. Can anyone help with JavaScript to extract just the number?
When I have to solve such things now, because I know very little JavaScript, I've been turning to the AI models, as they're usually quite good at such basic things. Of course, they're also nearly as likely to return the recipe for banana bread, but such are the risks :). But when they work, they can make short work of problems I'd spend hours on.
There are people here who are JS/data extraction experts, but given they haven't replied yet, I asked an AI for the JS code, in the form of this question: "I need a JS that's usable in Keyboard Maestro's modern syntax that will extract the job number from HTML code like this sample (pasted yours)." Here's what it gave me:
return (() => {
const jobText = document.querySelector('.Headline').textContent;
const match = jobText.match(/Job #(\d+)/);
return match ? match[1] : '';
})();
Put that in a Javascript in Front Browser action, save the results to a variable, and you should have the job number: At least, I did when I tested it with the snippet of HTML code you shared.
I'm 100% certain that a real JS programmer could come up with something better, but maybe this works for you.
