08. Grabbers: List

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The Grabbers list is used to find, add, and edit your Grabbers. Grabbers are used to define rules to get or grab content from external sources. There are multiple types of Grabbers. You can use them depending upon what you need to extract.

Column Headers

1. Checkbox: Check this box to select grabbers. To select all the grabbers, check the box in the column heading.

2. Status: The status of the grabber - Published, Unpublished or Trashed.

3. Title: The title of the grabber. You can edit the grabber by clicking on the Title. The title is for your reference only. Below the title, note is displayed.

4. Type: The type of the grabber.

5. Html Tag: The Html tag of the grabber to get content from. Below the tag name, attribute information is displayed.

6. ID: A unique identification number for this grabber.

List Filters

Search: You can search by the title of the Grabber.

Click Filter Options to display the additional filters.

1. Select Type: Select the type of Grabber from the list.

2. Select Status: Select from Published, Unpublished, Trashed, Archived or All.

3. Select Note: Select from the list of available notes.

Toolbar

1. Dashboard: Navigates to the component dashboard area.

2. New: Opens the editing screen to create a new Grabber.

Actions: Reveals a list of actions. Some actions are activated after checking one or more items in the list.

3. Publish: Makes the selected items in published state that are available to visitors to your website.

4. Unpublish: Makes the selected items in unpublished state that are unavailable to visitors to your website.

5. Archive: Changes the status of the selected items to Archive state.

6. Trash: Changes the status of the selected items to indicate that they are trashed. Completely deleting an item involves two stages - the first sends it to Trash where it is possible to restore it. The second stage empties it from Trash after which the item is removed permanently.

7. Truncate Table: Permanently delete all the items and empty the database table.

8. Export: Exports selected database table columns to CSV file. Learn More

9. Import: Imports the items to the database table from CSV file. Learn More

10. Query: Performs database operations on the table. Learn More

11. Help: Opens the help screen.