It is not unusual that you may need to hover on a page element to have some data shown on the webpage. In this tutorial, we will show you how to extract data that appears on hover in Octoparse.
STEP 1. Select the element you want to hover on
Click on the element you want to hover on
Select Hover on the selected element on the Tips panel
STEP 2. Adjust the timeout
A Hover on action will be generated and added to the workflow with an AJAX Timeout of 5s by default.
You can adjust the timeout according to the page loading time.
STEP 3. Select and extract data that appears on the hover
Hover on the page element again or click the Hover on action in the workflow if the data's no longer showing
Click on the data you want to capture when the data appears in the built-in browser
Select Text on the Tips panel
