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POClicking the "Show more" link on a LinkedIn group page using Ruby Mechanize
 

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    <p>I have logged in to Linkedin and reached my groups page using Ruby Mechanize. I am also able to retrieve the list of questions on the page. However, I am unable to click the "Show more" link at the bottom so that I can the entire page and hence all the questions:</p> <pre><code>require 'rubygems' require 'mechanize' require 'open-uri' a = Mechanize.new { |agent| # LinkedIn probably refreshes after login agent.follow_meta_refresh = true } a.get('http://linkedin.com/') do |home_page| my_page = home_page.form_with(:name =&gt; 'login') do |form| form.session_key = '********' #put you email ID form.session_password = '********' #put your password here end.submit mygroups_page = a.click(my_page.link_with(:text =&gt; /Groups/)) #puts mygroups_page.links link_to_analyse = a.click(mygroups_page.link_with(:text =&gt; 'Semantic Web')) link_to_test = link_to_analyse.link_with(:text =&gt; 'Show more...') puts link_to_test.class # link_to_analyse.search(".user-contributed .groups a").each do |item| # puts item['href'] # end end </code></pre> <p>Although a link exists with text 'Show more...' in the page, I am somehow not able to click it.the link_to_test.class shows NilClass What is the possible problem?</p> <pre><code>The part of the page I need to reach is: &lt;div id="inline-pagination"&gt; &lt;span class="running-count"&gt;20&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="total-count"&gt;1134&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="groups?mostPopularList=&amp;amp;gid=49970&amp;amp;split_page=2&amp;amp;ajax=ajax" class="btn-quaternary show-more-comments" title="Show more..."&gt; &lt;span&gt;Show more...&lt;/span&gt; &lt;img src="http://static01.linkedin.com/scds/common/u/img/anim/anim_loading_16x16.gif" width="16" height="16" alt=""&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p>I need to click the show more... I can use links_with(:href => ..) but doesnt seem to work.</p>
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