How to simulate a Google search

[Carl Youngblood]

I've been working on a script to simulate a Google search and getting
a little stuck. Depending on what country you're in, Google's search
button is translated into various languages. So I want to find and
click a button whose title matches a regular expression, rather than
finding a button with exact text.

I would also like to figure out how to find a button by name (not id
or title). Can somebody help me with this?

Thanks,
Carl

[Curran Schiefelbein]

You can use a CSS selector to find an element by any attribute:

selenium.get_value('css=input[name=btnG]')

That drops down into selenium; not sure whether you're using selenium
with webrat, but it's easier sometimes when you need to get specific
with your locators. Webrat makes too many assumptions in click_button
and click_link for my tastes. Of course you can always tweak webrat
itself to accept a selector, instead of constructing one for you, if
you don't want to use selenium. :)

Also, the FireFinder plugin for Firefox/Firebug is invaluable for
sanity checking CSS selectors.

Curran

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[Curran Schiefelbein]

Oops -- that should have read

selenium.click('css=input[name=btnG]')

And I meant to point you to the very thorough reference on CSS
selectors: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#selector-syntax

Curran