When clicking on a link to scrape its URL, the 'Capture Target URL' option in Capture window is disabled (greyed out).

Follow the steps given below to solve this problem. (watch video)

  1. 1. Click on the link/button whose URL you need to scrape
  2. 2. Apply Capture More Content option repeatedly till the Follow this link option is enabled
  3. 3. Select More Options > Capture HTML option
  4. 4. Select More Options > Apply Regular Expression option
  5. 5. From the RegEx dropdown, select 'Get link/URL from HTML - href="([^"]*)' and Apply
  6. 6. Click the main 'Capture HTML' button to select the URL for extraction.

Note: Even if a relative URL (without https:// starting part) is displayed in the preview, full/absolute URL will be scraped during the mining process.