Get Message Sender HTML No Longer Working! What's Changed?

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Need assistance to determine why the following action now fails which has been working for quite some time. Perhaps something changed in Gmail?

Execute a JavaScript in Google Chrome Action (v9.0.5)

Execute a JavaScript in Google Chrome.kmactions (937 B)

Could the following console errors observed when I Inspect the Sender's email address help explain the problem?

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This works for me:
document.querySelector('h3 span span[email]').innerText;
-->Xfinity

If you want both the sender name and email address, you could use:

emailElem = document.querySelector('h3 span span[email]');
senderName = emailElem.innerText;
senderEmail = emailElem.getAttribute('email');

Given this HTML:

<table cellpadding="0" class="cf ix">
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td class="c2">
      <h3 class="iw">
        <span class="qu" role="gridcell" tabindex="-1">
          <span email="xfinity@emails.xfinity.com" name="Xfinity" data-hovercard-id="xfinity@emails.xfinity.com" class="gD">Xfinity</span> 
          <span class="go">
            <span aria-hidden="true">&lt;</span>xfinity@emails.xfinity.com
            <span aria-hidden="true">&gt;</span>
          </span> 
        </span>
      </h3>
      </td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>
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JMichaelTX,

Thanks, your response works so I'll modify all my macros to use it!!

If I'm not mistaken, you provided the original solution that used to work until today (i.e. document.getElementsByTagName("H3")[2].innerHTM;)

Any ideas what might have changed in either my Chrome or Gmail?

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Most likely Gmail, but I have no specifics.

5

JMichaelTX,

Could you also share the code to capture the message subject and body?

6

Because Google uses dynamic classes and very few attributes, these are identified mostly by position -- which is very fragile. The slightest change in the web page could break these statements.

So, NO guarantees!

subjectStr = document.querySelector('h2[data-thread-perm-id]').innerText;
bodyStr = document.querySelector('div[data-message-id] > div:nth-child(2) > div:nth-child(3)').innerText;
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JMichaelTX,

They work as well!

Many thanks

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Ah webscraping, the last refuge... :slight_smile:

9

Actually I use it a lot as the preferred, first choice solution.

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My concern is, of course, the stability of the HTML. A nice stable DOM is to be treasured.