# Get HTML
This action can be used to scrape web content from an HTML page, by isolating elements given a complex XPATH evaluation string.
The resulting selected value (which is stored as a String), is output to an internally defined variable.
## **Properties**
### **Input**
* **URL**: The given URL, or variable defined as the specific URL.
* **Evaluator**: variable defined with XPATH evaluation string.
### **Output**
* **Output**: set already defined variables as output, or define a new one.
### **Misc**
* **Display Name**: action display name in your implementation project
* **Wait Before**: number milliseconds robot to wait before executing the action.
* **Wait After:** number milliseconds robot to wait until moving to the next action.
* **Abort on Error**: True/False
* **Retry Times**: Specifies the number of times to retry an action if it doesn't end successfully. Default value 0 (no retry); Use -1 if you want to retry indefinitely.
## **Use Case**
### **Potential Use Cases**
* Scrape the listings of an online shop, export in excel, and generate statistics based on scraped data.
* From the Ministry of Finance website, scrape the list of companies that didn’t pay taxes in order to avoid them as suppliers or customers.
* Scrape the price of some cryptocurrencies over time and determine a trend.
### **Examples of Using Get HTML**
**Example**
In this example, the robot finds out one of his friends became a parent and it wants to buy a pair of trousers for the baby from this [website](https://ielm.ro/pantaloni-copii).
It chooses [these trousers](https://ielm.ro/pantaloni-copii/short-pants-jungle-animals) and wants to check their price using the Scrape Webpage method.
Watch the robot in action:
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You can see how the **Get HTML** activity is used in an example that incorporates multiple activities. You can check and download the example from here:
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Get HTML sample project
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