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Documentation for scrape sensor attribute option (#3696)

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@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ Configuration variables:
- **resource** (*Required*): The URL to the website that contains the value.
- **select** (*Required*): Defines the HTML tag to search for. Check Beautifulsoup's [CSS selectors](https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#css-selectors) for details.
- **attribute** (*optional*): Get value of an attribute on the selected tag.
- **name** (*Optional*): Name of the sensor.
- **unit_of_measurement** (*Optional*): Defines the units of measurement of the sensor, if any.
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### {% linkable_title Get a value out of a tag %}
The German [Federal Office for Radiation protection (Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz)](http://www.bfs.de/) is publishing various details about optical radiation including an UV index. This example is getting the index for a region in Germany.
The German [Federal Office for Radiation protection (Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz)](http://www.bfs.de/) is publishing various details about optical radiation including an UV index. This example is getting the index for a region in Germany.
```yaml
sensor:
# Example configuration.yaml entry
sensor:
- platform: scrape
resource: http://www.bfs.de/DE/themen/opt/uv/uv-index/prognose/prognose_node.html
name: Coast Ostsee
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If you make heavy use of the [IFTTT](/components/ifttt/) web service for your automations and are curious about the [status of IFTTT](http://status.ifttt.com/) then you can display the current state of IFTTT in your frontend.
```yaml
sensor:
# Example configuration.yaml entry
sensor:
- platform: scrape
resource: http://status.ifttt.com/
name: IFTTT status
select: '.component-status'
```
### {% linkable_title Get the latest podcast episode file URL %}
If you want to get the file URL for the latest episode of your [favourite podcast](https://hasspodcast.io/), so you can pass it on to a compatible media player.
```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
sensor:
- platform: scrape
resource: https://hasspodcast.io/feed/podcast
name: Home Assistant Podcast
select: 'enclosure:nth-of-type(1)'
attribute: url
```