> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Javier Collado <javier.coll...@gmail.com> > To: Raji Seetharaman <sraji...@gmail.com> > Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:52:27 +0100 > Subject: Re: When to use mechanize and Windmill library during WebScraping > ? > Hello, > > If a script that uses mechanize fails to find an html node that has > been identified with Firebug, this is probably because that node has > been autogenerated (provided that the expression to get the node is > correct). > > As an alternative to verify this, you can try to download the html > page and open it in your favourite editor. If some of the nodes that > you can see in your browser are missing or empty, then one of the > JavaScript scripts in the page should have created/populated it. > > If you're in doubt, you can try to use mechanize and, if you have > problems such as the described above, then you can move to windmill or > some other tool that executes JavaScript code before trying to get the > desired data. > > Best regards, > Javier > > Thanks for your help
Raji. S
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