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    copied!<p>I wonder if YouTube could be searched with <a href="http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">HtmlUnit</a>. I started to write code, here it is:</p> <pre class="lang-java prettyprint-override"><code>import java.io.IOException; import java.net.MalformedURLException; import com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.FailingHttpStatusCodeException; import com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient; import com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlForm; import com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlPage; import com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlSubmitInput; public class HtmlUnitExampleTestBase { private static final String YOUTUBE = "http://www.youtube.com"; public static void main(String[] args) throws FailingHttpStatusCodeException, MalformedURLException, IOException { WebClient webClient = new WebClient(); webClient.setThrowExceptionOnScriptError(false); //This is equivalent to typing youtube.com to the adress bar of browser HtmlPage currentPage = webClient.getPage("http://www.youtube.com"); //Get form where submit button is located HtmlForm searchForm = (HtmlForm) currentPage.getElementById("masthead-search"); //Printing result form System.out.println(searchForm.asText()); final List&lt;HtmlAnchor&gt; listLinks = (List&lt;HtmlAnchor&gt;) newPage.getByXPath("//a[@class='ux-thumb-wrap result-item-thumb']"); for (int i=0; i&lt;listLinks.size(); i++){ System.out.println(YOUTUBE + listLinks.get(i).getAttribute("href")); } } } </code></pre> <p>Now I don't know how to type some text into a search field and press Search button.</p> <p>I saw tutorials about HtmlUnit but I'm having a problem because they use a method named: <code>getElementByName</code> but the search button on YouTube doesn't have a name, just an id. Could someone help me?</p> <p>EDIT: I edited code above code and now I am getting youtube links from first page. But before that I need to sort by upload date and then to grab links. Can someone help me to do sorting?</p>
 

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