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Aetherus
Aetherus

Reputation: 8888

How to use Mechanize on a page with no form?

I am trying to write a website crawler with Mechanize, and I found that my target website is written in a SPA fashion, and although there are a bunch of text fields and buttons, there is no form!

How can I use mechanize to fill text fields and click buttons outside forms?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 638

Answers (2)

pguardiario
pguardiario

Reputation: 54984

Let's say agent is a Mechanize object and page is a Mechanize::Page.

You can do:

form = Mechanize::Form.new page.at('body'), agent

Now the form is initialized with all the fields and buttons on the page.

You will need to set the action and method yourself:

form.action = 'http://foo.com'
form.method = 'POST'
next_page = form.submit

Upvotes: 0

j.sanghoon
j.sanghoon

Reputation: 132

I had the exact same problem you did. I ended up using 'capybara', 'launchy' and 'selenium-webdriver' to do what 'mechanize' would have in non-JavaScript env

Upvotes: 3

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