just_add_watir | Advanced recipes for Watir » .getElementsByTagName http://justaddwatir.com Advanced recipes for Watir Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:44:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Q. How can extract information from script headers? http://justaddwatir.com/2008/q-how-can-extract-information-from-script-headers/ http://justaddwatir.com/2008/q-how-can-extract-information-from-script-headers/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:51:57 +0000 admin http://justaddwatir.com/watir/?p=38 A. Use the getElementsByTagName method and iterate through results ...
Example html:

<title>test_0016</title>
<meta name="generator" content="TextMate http://macromates.com/">
<meta name="author" content="koops">
<!-- Date: 2008-08-12 -->
<script type="text/javascript">var PAGE_TID ="cache;app05.qa.sfo1:8101;2008-08-07T18:38:30Z;0001";
</script>

Example watir:

@b.goto('http://justaddwatir.com/watir/test_html/tc_0001_0100/test_0016.html')
s=[]
scripts = @b.document.body.parentElement.getElementsByTagName("script")
scripts.each do |script_tag|
  script_tag.invoke("innerHTML").each do |script|
    if script.match(/var PAGE_TID/)
      puts script
    end
  end
end
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