Tricky iframe data

[rwarrengill3]

I’m trying to monitor an organization’s careers page (https://www.dscc.org/about-us/jobs/).

The content I’m trying to monitor is below the red bar in the screenshot. Nothing I do gets the monitor the track that data.

Looking at the source, that content is in an iframe, being pulled in from Newton. That redirects to a recruitingbypaycor script.

The page does have a lightbox popup, but that doesn’t seem to be the issue.

I’ve tried a few things to get Distill to see that content (including a macro, monitoring sections of the page, monitoring the entire page, loading remotely, loading locally, and monitoring both the Newton and RecruitingbyPaycor URLs). Nothing has done the trick.

Any suggestions?

[ajitk (Ajit)]

using the browser extension (or the desktop app) makes it easier to select and monitor content in iframe. here are important things to note about monitoring content in an iframe:

1. a monitor’s config selects an iframe using index property. the default value is 0 that corresponds to main frame (the top level frame rendering the webpage).

2. the extension’s visual selector sets this index when selecting content within a frame. this is usually set as 1 if that iframe is the only iframe in the page. following screenshot shows what it looks like:

   

3. some pages can have multiple iframes. the index may have to be adjusted if other iframes in the page can load before the monitored one. i had to change the index to 2 in this case.

here is the config that works for me using the extension:

{
  "ignoreEmptyText": true,
  "includeStyle": false,
  "dataAttr": "text",
  "selections": [
    {
      "frames": [
        {
          "index": 2,
          "uri": "https://recruitingbypaycor.com/career/CareerHome.action?clientId=8a7883c66859e564016861cef09767a1&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dscc.org%2Fabout-us%2Fjobs%2F&gns=",
          "excludes": [],
          "includes": [
            {
              "type": "css",
              "expr": "body",
              "fields": [
                {
                  "name": "text",
                  "type": "builtin"
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "dynamic": true,
      "delay": 5
    }
  ],
  "incognito": false,
  "regexp": {
    "expr": "",
    "flags": "gim"
  },
  "blockAdsAndCookies": true
}

note that once the monitor has been configured using the extension, it can be configured to run in the cloud too. using a dedicated cloud device will be a good option to suppress the modal window from blocking the view.