Hi everybody,

I am trying to scrape some Google Scholar results. I have a problem in going from the first page of result to the second, and so on. In particular, I have tried to tell follow_link to click on the link with text 'Next' but it does not seem to recognize it. I have tried to use text_regex, but no success either. I believe I am not spotting the right "text", but I really need to rely on that to look for the link because the url is very complicated. Any clue?? Many many thanks!

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Here is the code:

my $title = Raumchemie der festen Stoffe
$mech->get(
"http://scholar.google.it/scholar?q=" . $title );

$mech->follow_link( url_regex => qr/cites/i, n => 1 );
my $result  = $mech->content;
my $indi    = $mech->uri();
my $rest     = $out->scrape( $result, $indi );
#~     dd( $result, $rest );

dd( $rest );
print F3 $rest;

for my $i (2..200) {
my $ii = $i . "0";
print "page : ".$i."\n";
$mech->follow_link( text_regex => qr/Next$/)or die("finished on page :
+ ".$i."\n");
my $result  = $mech->content;
my $indi    = $mech->uri();
my $rest     = $out->scrape( $result, $indi );
#~     dd( $result, $rest );
dd( $rest );
print F3 $rest;
sleep(5);

}

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