not skipping over urls for unfound elements

hharish

when i am scraping product data from product urls, if i am trying to either see whether a tag is available and if not to use a different tag or if a tag simply isn't found, i don't want it to give a full error for not finding that certain element i want and not scrape and save the rest of the data
how do i avoid this "skipping" over by overriding or changing the natural response of the crawler

i even have tried try catch statements and if else statements and nothing works

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hharish

code:

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lifeWithoutPlasticRouter.addHandler('LIFE_WITHOUT_PLASTIC_PRODUCT', async ({ page, request }) => {
    try {

        await page.goto(page.url(), { waitUntil: 'domcontentloaded' })

        console.log('Scraping products');

        const storeName = 'Life Without Plastic';

        const title = await page.$eval('h1.product-title', (el) => el.textContent?.trim() || '');
        
        let image = await page.$eval('a.product-image', (img) => img.getAttribute('href'));

        let description = await page.$$eval('div.product-description-wrapper p', (paragraphs) => {
          return paragraphs.map((p) => p.textContent?.trim()).join(' ');
        });
      
        let salePrice = await page.$eval('span.price-value', (el) => el.textContent?.trim() || '');
        let newTag = await page.$eval('span.price-ns', (el) => el.textContent?.trim() || '');
        let originalPrice = salePrice;

        if(newTag){
          originalPrice = newTag;
        }else{
          return
        }
        originalPrice = originalPrice.replace("$", "")
        originalPrice = originalPrice.replace("USD", "")

        salePrice = salePrice.replace("$", "")
        salePrice = salePrice.replace("USD", "")

        const shippingInfo = 'Free Shipping on orders above $100';
       ...
});

hharish

especially this here - it doesn't work to avoid an error and even using a try catch statement that tries to use that different tag and catches it andjust logs an error and returns doesnt work either:

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        let salePrice = await page.$eval('span.price-value', (el) => el.textContent?.trim() || '');
        let newTag = await page.$eval('span.price-ns', (el) => el.textContent?.trim() || '');
        let originalPrice = salePrice;

        if(newTag){
          originalPrice = newTag;
        }else{
          return
        }

hharish

ive tried all different combinations to catch errors but it doesn't avoid the built in crawlee error

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not skipping over urls for unfound elements