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Error - invocation.

Ducian — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 14:33:00 GMT

Hello Community,

Looking for a resolution to this error please.

Error - Highlighting results - Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.

chrome browser, scraping data from web. I get this error often. Read that others encountered this error when clicking buttons within Edge.

I get this error when collecting data from weather.com

and its sporadic, at times, I can scrape all data needed from the site, and with no change to my process I start getting this error.

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Raphael Shores
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RE: Error - invocation.

harish.mogulluri — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 20:35:00 GMT

Hi Raphael Shores,

I dont recall encountering this error while working on the web application, But I think it might be depends on the web application and how BOT is reading the data,
Can you elaborate how you are trying to read the data ( and Stage name , action used to read the data) might help to suggest Some workaround.

I can see couple of knowledge base article related to this exception but those are excel, VBO. take a look in to below article if you are interested,

https://support.blueprism.com/en/support/solutions/articles/7000076847-bpe-error-exception-has-been-thrown-by-the-target-of-an-invocation-when-trying-to-read-the-excel-vb

https://support.blueprism.com/en/support/solutions/articles/7000078397-bpe-error-exception-has-been-thrown-by-the-target-of-an-invocation-while-using-write-stage-in-sap

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RE: Error - invocation.

rsrivastava2 — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:51:00 GMT

Hi Raphael,

If this is sporadic, this means -

Your code is likely working, and the issue is to do with the website.
This could also mean that the issue with website behaviors.

I would suggest -

Using incognito mode, avoiding any cookie and cache.
Take into account, any adds or other elements that may be dynamic on website.
Go to chrome - settings and disable option that keeps background applications processes running.
You may not like this, but you could use start process -> process - cmd, parameter - taskkill /f /im "chrome*"

Hope this helps!

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WeitghtRPAMatey
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Re: Error - invocation.

Ducian — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 23:19:25 GMT

Thank you both for your reply, and willingness to assist.

harish.m - Sorry I could not review the links as they needed additional singing up for membership to view.

RohitSrivastava - I have tried 1/3 and is 4 just killing chrome? I did that and the browser closed.

I have not seen the error message in a few days, but I have also moved to another website for data Weather.com to Accuweather.com, got the error message today.

using a Navigate stage

I am attempting to spy the drop downs options. I would only like the options within the USA, actually I just need to be able to validate the selected option from the entered zip is within the USA. The top option is usually a USA location but at times the top option is not USA, in the picture the 2ed option matches the zip, but in another Country, I want to ensure this is avoided if it shows as the top option. also doing this within a VDI (remote) not sure if that matters

Re: Error - invocation.

LeonardoSQueiroz — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:51:24 GMT

Hello,

Option if it makes sense in the context, check the accuweather API https://developer.accuweather.com/apis, I believe that filters by region can help and speed up the search.

Regards,