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…

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 do…

In the meantime you could try something like this. You cannot (I think) avoid a timeout as it will have to wait to see if there is a result before taking the action. Probably it could be much less than 250ms. In the Trigger node set the Then Send message to some html that the the html node will p…

Or I suppose that before passing your html to the node you could prepend a bit of html that you know will match, and then ignore the first element in the result. That may be a simpler solution in fact.

@Colin - 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... [{"id":"87497856.9d39f8","type":"html","z":"9da3d17d.f408","name":"","property":"payload","outproperty":"payload","tag":"h1","ret":"html","as":"singl…

Here is another example on what dceejay suggested [r-01] [{"id":"fe068816.7bb6f8","type":"tab","label":"HTML selector","disabled":false,"info":""},{"id":"7d11437a.bb6f5c","type":"inject","z":"fe068816.7bb6f8","name":"Go","topic":"","payload":"Go","payloadType":"str","repeat":"","crontab":"","once…

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kuzmich 21 January 2019 00:20 8

Thanks everyone, using an array does indeed solve the problem.

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