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user3208216
user3208216

Reputation: 94

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Trying to get search results on the IMDb website. Code is the following:

 public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
{
    java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger("com.gargoylesoftware").setLevel(Level.OFF);
    System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.Log", "org.apache.commons.logging.impl.NoOpLog");
    final WebClient webClient = new WebClient(BrowserVersion.CHROME);

    HtmlPage page1 = webClient.getPage("http://www.imdb.com");
    HtmlInput input1 = page1.getElementByName("q");
    input1.setValueAttribute("Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles");

    HtmlSubmitInput submit = page1.getElementByName("navbar-submit-button");

    page1 = submit.click();

    System.out.println(page1.asText());

    webClient.closeAllWindows();
}

The output I get is:

Exception in thread "main" com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.ElementNotFoundException: elementName=[*] attributeName=[name] attributeValue=[navbar-find] at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlPage.getElementByName(HtmlPage.java:1747) at main.Main.main(Main.java:37) Java Result: 1

The id from the submit button is: navbar-submit-button.

The source code is this:

<button id="navbar-submit-button" class="primary btn" type="submit"><div class="magnifyingglass navbarSprite"></div></button>

Thank you in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 61

Answers (2)

user3208216
user3208216

Reputation: 94

The way it worked for me, was to use XPath. This was I could just choose the id. Went great. Thanks for your help.

Upvotes: 0

Bruno Franco
Bruno Franco

Reputation: 2037

There are two important situations in your example:

1 - You need an element named q because of the line:

HtmlInput input1 = page1.getElementByName("q");

2 - You have an element with id="navbar-submit-button", so you have to use getElementById:

HtmlSubmitInput submit = page1.getElementById("navbar-submit-button");

Upvotes: 2

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