Question :
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$2')">2</a>
Does anyone know how to click on it? or if perhaps there’s another tool.
Thanks
Answer #1:
I mainly use HtmlUnit under jython for these use cases. Also I published a simple article on the subject: Web Scraping Ajax and Javascript sites.
Answer #2:
instead of struggling with python-spidermonkey try webkit’s qt python bindings.
Here is a full example to execute JavaScript and extract the final HTML.
Answer #3:
how about calling __doPostBack('ctl00$MainContent$gvSearchResults','Page$'+pageid); (javascript method, via python-spidermonkey)
