you can use selenium like below sample: from selenium import webdriver driver = webdriver.Firefox() driver.get(‘http://example.com’) element = driver.find_element_by_class_name(“yourClassName”) #or find by text or etc element.click()
You want to use FormElement. This is a useful feature of Jsoup. It is able to find the fields declared inside a form and post them for you. Before posting the form you can set the value of the fields using Jsoup API. Nota: In the sample codes below, you’ll always see calls to the … Read more
I created a custom import function that overcomes all limits of IMPORTXML I have a sheet using this in about 800 cells and it works great. It makes use of Google Sheet’s custom scripts (Tools > Script editor…) and searches through content using regex instead of xpath. function importRegex(url, regexInput) { var output=””; var fetchedUrl … Read more
I modified a web-scraping template I use for most of my Python-based scraping needs to fit your needs. Verified it worked with my own login info. The way it works is by mimic-ing a browser and maintaining a cookieJar that stores your user session. Got it to work with BeautifulSoup for you as well. Note: … Read more
Sub Scrape() Dim Browser As InternetExplorer Dim Document As htmlDocument Dim Elements As IHTMLElementCollection Dim Element As IHTMLElement Set Browser = New InternetExplorer Browser.Visible = True Browser.navigate “http://www.stackoverflow.com” Do While Browser.Busy And Not Browser.readyState = READYSTATE_COMPLETE DoEvents Loop Set Document = Browser.Document Set Elements = Document.getElementById(“hmenus”).getElementsByTagName(“li”) For Each Element In Elements Debug.Print Element.innerText ‘Questions ‘Tags … Read more
You’d make the request as though you’d just filled out the form. Assuming it’s POST for example, you make a POST request with the correct data. Now if you can’t login directly to the same page you want to scrape, you will have to track whatever cookies are set after your login request, and include … Read more
Well, you have to simply loop through the list: elems = driver.find_elements_by_xpath(“//a[@href]”) for elem in elems: print(elem.get_attribute(“href”)) find_elements_by_* returns a list of elements (note the spelling of ‘elements’). Loop through the list, take each element and fetch the required attribute value you want from it (in this case href).
Node.io seems to take the cake 🙂
This is how you do it. from urllib import request, parse data = parse.urlencode(<your data dict>).encode() req = request.Request(<your url>, data=data) # this will make the method “POST” resp = request.urlopen(req)