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Asked: 2026-05-31T13:50:46+00:00

I am trying to get my Mechanize script to click a button but it

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I am trying to get my Mechanize script to click a button but it doesn’t seem to be a real button, but a link embedded in a list element:

<ul class='SomeName' id="SomeID">
<li a="['arbitrary stuff here']" class="blah">
<span class="spanny">TextOnTheButton</span>
</li>

How might I tell Mechanize to click this element?

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  1. Editorial Team

    This <li> can only be clickable if Javascript is involved, which mechanize doesn’t understand. Thus, you have basically two options:

    • Check in a HTTP protocol analyzer like Fiddler or the one integrated in Firebug which query is issued after clicking the link (if a new HTTP request is issued at all)
    • Use a Javascript-aware scraper like Selenium or my own little library, dryscrape (which is only tested on Linux)
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