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# Create empty excel

Creating an empty excel is the action of initializing a completely new Excel file (format `.xlsx`) that is empty at a specified path on your computer.

This action is often placed at the beginning of a script to prepare a clean storage file before data scraping (Data Crawler) or logging actions start pushing information in.

#### Configuration parameters:

* File Path: The absolute path including the file name and the `.xlsx` extension where you want to create the file (For example: `D:\GPM\data_crawler.xlsx`).

#### Practical example: Initialize the data export file before scraping posts

Suppose you are writing a script to automatically browse groups and collect (scrape) post links and interactions for market research. Before the data scraping loop starts running, you need to have an empty Excel file ready to store the results.

* Configuration method: In the first step of the script, you call the Create empty excel action.
  * File Path: Enter the path `D:\GPM\ketqua_facebook.xlsx`.
* Result:
  * If there is no file `ketqua_facebook.xlsx` in the `D:\GPM\` directory, the system will immediately create an empty Excel file.
  * If the file already exists, the system will delete the old file and create a completely new empty file to ensure that the data from the previous run does not mix with this run.

After this step, you can confidently use actions like Write excel file or Append excel file to write the scraped data into the file.

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