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in thread Mechanize can't find a link with hidden text.

So I fixed it. There was a bug with other code regarding the date, because when I checked it an hour ago, it was yesterday, then the date changed the next hour.
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Re^4: Mechanize can't find a link with hidden text.
by bitingduck (Deacon) on Mar 04, 2015 at 06:49 UTC

    You can look at the response your agent got and see if it has the web page you expect by doing:

    print $agent->content();

    I just used a browser and did "view source". Virtually all browsers have that option, but sometimes you have to do something like "enable developer menus" or something like that.

    Also, did you fix it, or did it fix itself because you're not at a date boundary? For just following a link in a page you already have that doesn't seem like it would be an issue for that page.

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      The scraper is supposed to get several of the items, so it went back to previous dates. The problem was the item only got released every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; so it had the problem when it tried to go back several days and touched a Tuesday page, which didn't exist. I just set it to go back one more day to reach the Monday.
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