Re^9: WWW::Mechanize::Firefox and dynamic pages

What you get back are DOM nodes. You can access their attributes. For example, the innerHTML attribute:

print $frame->{innerHTML}
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By doing that, you've mostly left the area that WWW::Mechanize::Firefox supports and you will have to consult the Firefox documentation for what attributes and methods are supported.

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Re^10: WWW::Mechanize::Firefox and dynamic pages by Special_K (Pilgrim) on Sep 21, 2013 at 06:44 UTC
Just because I hate finding questions online with no resolution, I'm coming back with the answer. Here is how I was able to find the link I was looking for within the page's HTML: `my @test_frames = $mech->xpath('/html/body/div/p/a', one => 1, frames +=> 1); printf(TEST_FH "result is %s\n", $test_frames[0]->{outerHTML});` [download] I obtained the xpath using Firebug (highlight the link on the webpage, right click, select "copy Xpath") then used the outerHTML (as opposed to innerHTML) to get the URL.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^10: WWW::Mechanize::Firefox and dynamic pages
by Special_K (Pilgrim) on Sep 21, 2013 at 06:44 UTC

Just because I hate finding questions online with no resolution, I'm coming back with the answer. Here is how I was able to find the link I was looking for within the page's HTML:

my @test_frames = $mech->xpath('/html/body/div/p/a', one => 1, frames 
+=> 1);
printf(TEST_FH "result is %s\n", $test_frames[0]->{outerHTML});
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I obtained the xpath using Firebug (highlight the link on the webpage, right click, select "copy Xpath") then used the outerHTML (as opposed to innerHTML) to get the URL.

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