Question

I’m trying to scrape this grid from a website:

Obviously this is going to be hard since the grid is paged. Using firebug, hovering my mouse over one of the numbers will give me this javascript:

"javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$CMSGMainContentPlaceHolder$ToolContentPlaceHolder$MCDContentPlaceHolder$ncdControl1$ncdGridView','Page$2')"

Is there anyway I can trigger that postback, and get the HTML back?

Edit: The grid is in an update panel, so the url doesn’t change when you cycle through the paging.

Answer 1

You should be able to do something like:

ie.Link(Find.ByUrl("javascript:__doPostBack('GridView1','Select$0')")).Click();

Maybe you will have to jump through some hoops to get the correct ID for the control.