Clicking on a Javascript Link on Firefox with Selenium

Question

I am trying to get some comments off the car blog, Jalopnik. It doesn\'t come with the web page initially, instead the comments get retrieved with some Javascript. You only ge

Answer 1

Using Firefox with the Firebug plugin, I browsed to http://jalopnik.com/5912009/prius-driver-beat-up-after-taking-out-two-bikers.

I then opened the Firebug console and clicked on ALL; it obligingly showed a single AJAX call to http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=threadlist&post_id=5912009&mode=all&page=0&repliesmode=hide&nouser=true&selected_thread=null

Opening that url in a new window gets me the comment feed you are seeking.

More generally, if you substitute the appropriate article-ID into that url, you should be able to automate the process without Selenium.