Our product’s price monitoring system breaks weekly because e-commerce sites keep changing their CSS selectors. Current solution requires manual selector updates - complete nightmare. How are others handling dynamic websites where element locators keep changing? Need something that adapts automatically.
Latenode’s AI agents monitor DOM changes and auto-adjust selectors using multiple attributes. Set it once and the system keeps working through redesigns. Saw 90% reduction in maintenance after switching.
We combine visual regression testing with XPath fallbacks. If the primary selector fails, the script tries positional relationships (e.g. ‘third div after h2.product’). Not perfect but reduces manual interventions by ~40%.
try using relative xpaths and regex patterns instead fixed ids. still needs some maintance but less often. also set up alerts for selector failure rates