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can't navigate 'next' button

Post by m1231e » Tue Dec 11, 2012 4:33 pm

I am scraping a publicly searchable database. It currently forces me to search by last name; does allow wildcard search such that it will return all last names starting with a given letter. It limits results to 200, and displays these 200 results forty at a time. There is a next button at the bottom of each page of forty. I can't get Scraper to navigate the 'next' button. I have simulate click selected and number set to exactly one. when I select 'find kind in browser' it identifies the next button no problem.

When I open the properties table for the kind 'Next' the IsLink property is false. Here's the code for the next button
<a href="/free/piresults.asp?rb_name=on&last_name=a%2A&first_name=&profession=69&lic_type=6900&license_number=&Search=Search&offset=40">
<img src="images/next.gif" width="126" height="35" border="0"></a>

How can I make it go to the next page of forty results?

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Re: can't navigate 'next' button

Post by webmaster » Tue Dec 11, 2012 6:10 pm

The metatag is not the problem. When you look at your kind, is the TagName "A"? If not, please recreate the kind and make sure it selects an "A", an “INPUT” or a “BUTTON” element. You are most likely selecting a parent element of the “A” element, so what you’d to is select this element and then use the Select first child button in the selection panel until you find one of the elements I mentioned above and then create your Next kind.
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Re: can't navigate 'next' button

Post by m1231e » Wed Dec 12, 2012 1:22 pm

Thanks tons! Very helpful advice, as always.

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