I'm using html node to apply a CSS selector and sometimes this selector returns nothing, so html node doesn't return anything. Is there a good way to continue the flow anyway and put something like "false" in the payload? Preferrably without using timeouts. Thanks.

[image] dceejay: a simple test would seem to show that if you ask for an array of results, and there is no match then indeed you should get an empty array. Doh! I went back and checked my test flow again, and the selection of array mode had not 'taken'. I guess I must have moved the mouse as…

Continue flow after empty response from HTML node

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Colin 20 January 2019 08:19 2

I have not used that node, but looking at the readme it seems that if you select the array output then it aught to send an empty array if there are no matches, but that seems not to be the case. I would say that is a deficiency in the node, it might be worth raising an issue against it.
It also doesn't appear to generate anything in a Status node or a Catch node.

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Continue flow after empty response from HTML node

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