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I am navigating a site using python's mechanize module and having trouble clicking on a javascript link for next page. I did a bit of reading and people suggested I need python-spidermonkey and DOMforms. I managed to get them installed by I am not sure of the syntax to actually click on the link.
I can identify the code on the page as:
<a href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$MainContent$gvSearchResults','Page$2')">2</a>
Does anyone know how to click on it? or if perhaps there's another tool.
Thanks
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In Selenium Webdriver, we can just use element. click() method to click on any element.
We can click on a link using Selenium webdriver in Python. A link is represented by the anchor tag. A link can be identified with the help of the locators like - link text and partial link text. We can use the link text attribute for an element for its identification and utilize the method find_element_by_link_text.
The click() method simulates a mouse-click on an element. This method can be used to execute a click on an element as if the user manually clicked on it.
What is JavascriptExecutor in Selenium? In simple words, JavascriptExecutor is an interface that is used to execute JavaScript with Selenium. To simplify the usage of JavascriptExecutor in Selenium, think of it as a medium that enables the WebDriver to interact with HTML elements within the browser.
I mainly use HtmlUnit under jython for these use cases. Also I published a simple article on the subject: Web Scraping Ajax and Javascript sites.
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instead of struggling with python-spidermonkey try webkit's qt python bindings.
Here is a full example to execute JavaScript and extract the final HTML.
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