Selection of drop down values
Hi Everybody,
I am a java programmer and I have a site to scrape which has a drop down list. On click of one item from that list, a javascript function is called with a full page refresh, and i get a new page with contents i need to scrape.
The new page i get is having 1,2,3,next links on it, which in turn calls javascript function.
Please can anyone tell me how i need to click all the items of the drop down list through screen scraper and how to navigate to next pages.
Thanks in advance,
Vivek.
Selection of drop down values
vivek,
You'll need to create an extractor pattern for each
If you have the ideal situation where there is only one list with the first item being the no select then you need only call a script after each time your extractor pattern matches an
If you have the more complex situation then you'll likely need to make use of a manual extraction set up. This includes utilizing the extractData() method (professional and enterprise edition only).
Here is a link to a working example. It can be a little confusing so hopefully my notes within the scraping session help.
http://www.screen-scraper.com/support/examples/manual-extraction-example.html
-Scott