Use Element's Text

If the element you want to address has unique text, you can address that element by that text. For example, if you want to automatically like a page on Facebook, you can make your TaskBot find and click on a button with text "Like".

Below you will see how exactly this can be done.

Exact Match

text="Enter exact text of the element" (inside the double quotes)

If you enter text inside double quotes, as shown below, your TaskBot will search for an element that matches exactly this text.

text="some text" Beware: This option is case-sensitive!

For example, assume you want to start a post on LinkedIn, and the button on LinkedIn is called "Start a post".

In this case, you can create a selector using the following syntax:

Loose Match

text=Enter SOME keywords of the text of the element (without double quotes)

If you enter text without double quotes, as shown below, your TaskBot will search for an element that has text that contains the keywords you provided.

text=some keywords that the text contains

For example, assume you want to save the number of followers from a Facebook business page, and the information on the page contains a text that says 1,456 people follow this.

As the number changes dynamically depending on the popularity of the page, you cannot use text="1,456 people follow this" (with double quotes) but you can use the keyword people follow this. Simply skip double quotes like shown here:

text=people follow this (❌ instead of text="people follow this")

Video Tutorial: Introduction to Selectors

Video Tutorial: Example of Using text="" and text=