Advanced selectors
Stekpad uses AI pattern inference by default, so you rarely need to think about selectors. When you do, the Advanced Selectors panel lets you inspect, edit, and override the inferred pattern.
Advanced users can combine AI inference with manual CSS or regex fallbacks for fields that need exact control. Useful for scraping deeply-nested SPA state or extracting substrings from a parent element.
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