HTML Node - Include Target element HTML

Feature Requests
1

The idea is:

With the HTML Node, when you return HTML for a selector match, the return values do not include the matched element, only it’s children.

I would like to see a new Return Value of ‘HTML with matched element’ that would include the matched element in the output.

My use case:

I’m doing some advanced data matching on scraped webpage and am finding the removal of the parent element is breaking some of my processes.

I think it would be beneficial to add this because:

This will allow for more robust HTML data extraction.

2

To be more specific with this request, when using the HTML node to return html it returns the InnerHTML of the element, I would like the option to have the OuterHTML returned.

3

Oh, please! You can always get the child elements via CSS selector (target > *), so there’s no need to use the innerHTML at all. I have this scenario all the time. E.g. "Get all images (<img>) only returns null, when choosing HTML extraction.

4

I am fairly certain this is an incredibly easy change in the code.

In the HtmlExtract node, there is this line 29:

html: ($: Cheerio, _valueData: IValueData): string | undefined => $.html() || undefined,

my understanding is, you would only need to change $.html() to $.toString() to receive the outer HTML instead of the inner HTML.

As I seem to be too dumb to get the HtmlExtract node working on my local developer instance, thus not being able to test this out, maybe someone with a working dev environment could chime in and test this theory?