From: Phil Mcdonnell <phil.a.mcdonnell@...>
Date: 2010-05-24T16:36:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Scrape javascript content

This is extremely helpful!

With Watir I'm running into a problem finding the image button for login 
on the following page:
https://online.americanexpress.com/myca/logon/us/action?request_type=LogonHandler&Face=en_US&DestPage=https%3A%2F%2Fwww99.americanexpress.com%2Fmyca%2Facctsumm%2Fus%2Faction%3Frequest_type%3Dauthreg_acctAccountSummary%26us_nu%3Dlogincontrol

It looks like the login button is just a clickable image and I should be 
able to find it via:
browser.button(:alt, "Login").click

Any idea why that doesn't find the button?

David Wright wrote:
> Mechanize cannot execute javascript but watir/celerity can. (I've never 
> used harmony)
> 
> #in watir (could also use firewatir and/or the safari equivalent)
> require 'watir'
> require 'watir/ie'
> 
> # should work identically with celerity
> #require 'celerity
> #@browser = Celerity::IE.new
> 
> @login_page = 'http://example.com/'
> 
> @browser = Watir::IE.new
> @browser.goto @login_page
> @browser.text_field(:name, 'username').set(@user)
> @browser.text_field(:name, 'password').set(@pass)
> @browser.button(:value, "LogIn").click
> 
> # go to page where the javascript link is
> @broswer.link(:text, "Link Name").click
> 
> # click it
> # this assumes the fireClick event is 'just' an ajax call which returns 
> content
> @broswer.link(:id, "iroc_0").click
> @browser.wait # wait for ajax to return
> 
> # show page's displaying text (not view source)
> puts @browser.text
> # if above fires a pop up window more code is needed to retrieve the 
> content

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