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I’m building a Make.com scenario like this:

HTTP (fetch website HTML) → Text parser (extract elements) → Filter "only good links" → Array aggregator → further processing

Goal I want only “good” links to pass, for example:

/karriere, /stellenangebote, /jobs

/about, /team

/leistungen, /services

I want to exclude everything else, like:

anchors #

mailto:, , javascript:

file extensions like .png, .css, .js, .pdf

asset folders /wp-content/, /images/, /static/

The problem When I use the Text parser module with element type = a, the output shows:

Element = full <a …>… string

Inner content = link text or inner HTML

Attributes = always empty

That means Attributes.href is never available. So my filter on href never works – nothing passes through, even though the HTML clearly contains valid links.

Example HTML observed in the parser output:

So far I tried:

Adding a filter directly after the Text parser, using Attributes.href → always empty

Building regex conditions, but since href is not extracted, they don’t apply

What I need help with:

Is it best practice in Make to filter directly on the Element (the full tag) using regex, instead of trying to use Attributes.href?

Or should I first extract the href into a new variable and then filter on that variable?

How do I handle both relative URLs (like /karriere) and absolute URLs (like https://…/karriere) before the aggregator?

Any Make-specific advice on where to place the filter so I don’t end up collecting thousands of irrelevant links?

Expected Links such as career, jobs, about, team, services etc should pass through.

Actual Currently nothing passes because Attributes.href is always empty.

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    Please provide enough code so others can better understand or reproduce the problem. Commented Sep 7 at 16:42
  • Do you just need to delete <a> links that do not pass your criteria ? Ie. keep it if it passes your tests ? Commented Sep 7 at 18:37
  • There is a little section in the middle where what you don't want is matched. (?:(?!\1).)*? If it finds it, replace the match with nothing ''. If you have a list of exclusion text, post it and I'll put it in there / show you how. (?si)<a(?=\s(?:[^>"']|"[^"]*"|'[^']*')*?(?<=\s)href\s*=\s*(?:(['"])((?:(?!\1).)*?)\1(?:"[\S\s]*?"|'[\S\s]*?'|[^>]?)*?>))\s+(?:".*?"|'.*?'|[^>]?)+> regex101.com/r/nN9WwB/1 Commented Sep 7 at 18:48
  • It can be done either by passing (['"])(?:(?!\1).)*?(?:/karriere|/stellenangebote|/jobs|/about|/team|/leistungen|/services)(?:(?!\1).)*?\1 or by failing (['"])(?:(?!\1).)*?(?:anchors\s*\#|mailto:|javascript:|/wp-content/|/images/|/static/|\.(?:jpg|png|jpeg|gif|pdf|js|css)\b)(?:(?!\1).)*?\1 Just put these in the placeholder above. Then use that regex on each of your filterred a tag's Commented Sep 7 at 19:20
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