getVariable

Object runnableScrapingSession.getVariable ( String variableName ) (professional and enterprise editions only)

Description

Retrieve the the value of a session variable. This method should be called after scrape method has returned.

Parameters

variableName Name of the variable, as a string.

Return Values

Returns the value of the session variable: object, boolean, int, string, etc. If the variable doesn't exists it returns null.

Change Log

Version	Description
4.5	Available for professional and enterprise editions.

Examples

Write Variable to Log

runnableScrapingSession = new com.screenscraper.scraper.RunnableScrapingSession( "My Session" );

// Ensure scrape will be run before the script continues
runnableScrapingSession.setDoLazyScrape( false );

// Start the scrape
runnableScrapingSession.scrape();

// Outputs the value of the variable FOO to the log.
session.log( "FOO: " + runnableScrapingSession.getVariable( "FOO" ) );