If you do want to use COM & win32all instead, just bear in mind that the way to simulate an OnClick is to use taken from the blog you quoted) -
ie.Document.frames(1).Document.forms(0).all.item(\"buttonSok\").click()But yeah, use PAMIE instead.
Regards,
Liam Clarke
PS Cheers for the link also Kent.
On 5/22/05, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You may be interested in Pamie:
http://pamie.sourceforge.net/
Kent
Craig Booth wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to loop over all of the links in a given webpage and
> retrieve the source of each of the child pages in turn.
>
> My problem is that the links are in the following form:
>
> [begin html]
> <a href="" false;" class="ln">link1</a>
> <a href="" false;" class="ln">link2</a>
> <a href="" false;" class="ln">link3</a>
> <a href="" false;" class="ln">link4</a>
> [end html]
>
> So clicking the links appears to call the _javascript_ function gS to
> dynamically create pages.
>
> I can't figure out how to get urllib/urllib2 to work here as the URL of
> each of these links is http://www.thehomepage.com/# .
>
> I have tried to get mechanize to click each link, once again it doesn't
> send the onclick request and just goes to http://www.thehomepage.com/#
>
> This blog (http://blog.tomtebo.org/programming/lagen.nu_tech_2.html)
> strongly suggests that the easiest way to do this is to use IE and COM
> automation (which is fine as I am working on a windows PC) so I have tried
> importing win32com.client and actually getting IE to click the link:
>
> [begin code]
>
> ie = Dispatch(" InternetExplorer.Application")
> ie.Visible = 1
> ie.Navigate('http://www.thehomepage.com')
>
> #it takes a little while for page to load
> if ie.Busy :
> sleep(2)
>
> #Print page title
> print ie.LocationName
>
> test=ie.Document.links
> ie.Navigate(ie.Document.links(30))
>
> [end code]
>
> Which should just click the 30th link on the page. As with the other
> methods this takes me to http://www.thehomepage/# and doesn't call the
> _javascript_.
>
> If somebody who has more experience in these matters could suggest a
> course of action I would be grateful. I'm more than happy to use any
> method (urllib, mechanize, IE & COM as tried so far) just so long as it
> works :)
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Craig.
>
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