Getting HTML response - want to parse certain fields to next request

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Please, let me know how to parse some fields from HTML response to next request.
Similar to this command for JSON response

var data = JSON.parse(responseBody);
postman.setEnvironmentVariable("id", data.id);

I’m trying to get fields by id from

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
............

    <input type="hidden" name="ID1" id="ID1" value="dfbldbldb" />
    <input type="hidden" name="templateID" id="templateID" value="sdfjsbh skjd" />
    <input type="hidden" name="ID2" id="ID2" value="sfsighs87y" />
    <input type="hidden" name="templateName" id="templateName" value="template name here" />

............
</html>
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Hey @yglprn. The Postman Sandbox has cheerio as one of the supported libraries which you can use to parse HTML responses. Here’s what your use case might look like.

var html = cheerio(responseBody),
 id1 = html.find('#ID1').attr('value'),
 templateId = html.find('#templateID').attr('value'),
 id2 = html.find('#ID2').attr('value'),
 templateName = html.find('#templateName').attr('value');
 
console.log(id1, templateId, id2, templateName);
/*
dfbldbldb
sdfjsbh skjd
sfsighs87y
template name here
*/

You can update the value specified in.attr() as per your needs. Feel free to reach out if you have additional queries.

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Still i am unable to extract a value : Please help me further in detail

My Response in HTML is

4YbyKvmfRN-iR4Wjxv5YNXctxELXDO2V6C_SGfvLUwggTSQaqYeLlK1dV-YutnjecMbC0DRb6i9mi2YK8-ZdDMvikgn28HoSjifrPuTUMY6UwAkTRpU3dIz4-XPcg4krLe_8cFvttD9wx6EfHM8fGtsW7OxTlNRErJ5-o9FjoGC_E_pqwEZb3v6yMzOMWM0L3ZbWL284WYYALuhtfkB6rQ==
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surya.ponnusamy_egov
What are you trying to extract?

5

Hi Thanks for the reply. I am extracting a token value which lies between HTML tag

and also there are plenty of attributes in the table. This is why i am unable to extract the particular token value.
6

How to extract all the href links with submit link only

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Encompass Import System: Loans Processed</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/Encompass/css-table.css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="/Encompass/jquery-1.11.1.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/Encompass/Encompass.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<table width="100%"><caption>Loans in process queue (Sorted by last modified)</caption>
<thead><tr>
<th scope="col">File Name</th>
<th scope="col">Loan Number</th>
<th scope="col">Date Created</th>
<th scope="col">Last Modified</th>
<th scope="col">Request</th>
</tr></thead><tbody>
<tr><td>FILECheckTestLoans.xlsx</td><td><a href=/LoanServicing/GetLoanData?loannumber=1000043845 target=loanDetail>1000043845</a></td><td>2021-03-04 15:37:49.437</td><td>2021-03-04 15:37:49.437</td><td><a href=/Encompass/RunUpdate?id=26088&requestId=1614893866191&ln=1000043845 target=_new>Submit</td></tr><tr><td>FILECheckTestLoans.xlsx</td><td><a href=/LoanServicing/GetLoanData?loannumber=1000043833 target=loanDetail>1000043833</a></td><td>2021-03-04 15:37:49.437</td><td>2021-03-04 15:37:49.437</td><td><a href=/Encompass/RunUpdate?id=26089&requestId=1614893866191&ln=1000043833 target=_new>Submit</td></tr><tr>