[feature] Extend "Visual filter selector" with a way to deselect elements

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[feature] Extend "Visual filter selector" with a way to deselect elements #2450

Open Shasoosh opened 5 days ago

Shasoosh commented 5 days ago

As mentioned in this GitHub FR and specifically in this comment, the current Visual Filter Selector lacks a feature to deselect elements, unlike Distill.

At present, users must manually identify the CSS selector they wish to exclude and add it themselves. Implementing this functionality in the UI would be a significant improvement.

dgtlmoon commented 11 minutes ago

This can go in after #1951

Maybe some toggle switch at the top between Include or Exclude

The screenshot would need to show something like 'hashed out' for the "exclude" ones
If the xpath is in the "exclude" list then it should be hashed-out instead of "cleared out" with the red-border
it means visual-selector and the scraper need to also check/process the "ignore css/xpaths" box too