MacOS – How to click button with applescript using UI Element Inspector

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I am new to applescript. I am trying to open a webpage, and click a button on that webpage.

here is my script:

tell application "Safari" to activate
tell application "System Events"
    tell application "System Events" to open location "https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibooks/id364709193?mt=8"
    click button "View In iTunes" of window "iBooks for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store"
end tell

here is my info gathered from inspector:

<AXApplication: “Safari”>
 <AXWindow: “iBooks for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store”>
  <AXGroup>
   <AXGroup>
    <AXGroup>
     <AXScrollArea: “”>
      <AXWebArea: “”>
       <AXLink: “View In iTunes
”>
        <AXGroup: “”>

Attributes:
   AXRole:  “AXGroup”
   AXSubrole:  “(null)”
   AXRoleDescription:  “group”
   AXChildren:  “<array of size 1>”
   AXHelp:  “”
   AXParent:  “<AXLink: “View In iTunes
”>”
   AXPosition:  “x=-9566 y=574”
   AXSize:  “w=10105 h=23”
   AXTitle:  “”
   AXDescription:  “”
   AXValue:  “”
   AXFocused:  “0”
   AXEnabled:  “1”
   AXWindow:  “<AXWindow: “iBooks for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store”>”
   AXSelectedTextMarkerRange (W):  “(null)”
   AXStartTextMarker:  “<AXTextMarker 0x100151f70 [0x7fff77fa1110]>{length = 24, bytes = 0x070000000000000078140319010000000000000001000000}”
   AXEndTextMarker:  “<AXTextMarker 0x100177c50 [0x7fff77fa1110]>{length = 24, bytes = 0x9a00000000000000c09de015010000000e00000001000000}”
   AXVisited:  “0”
   AXLinkedUIElements:  “(null)”
   AXSelected:  “0”
   AXBlockQuoteLevel:  “0”
   AXTopLevelUIElement:  “<AXWindow: “iBooks for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store”>”
   AXTitleUIElement:  “(null)”

Actions:
   AXPress - press
   AXShowMenu - show menu

How do I click the "View in iTunes" button?

Best Answer

This is the easiest way...

tell application "Safari"
    if not (exists document 1) then reopen
    activate
    set URL of document 1 to "https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibooks/id364709193"
    delay 3
    do JavaScript "document.getElementsByClassName('lockup product application')[0].childNodes[3].onclick()" in document 1
end tell

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For a minute there I thought you were asking the same question again as last time.

But realise now you want to know how to use Inspect Element to construct your own code.

In the example you give: document.forms[WHATGOESHERE?].click()

The WHATGOESHERE would be the form name.

i.e document.forms['theFormName'].click()

Your website in their wisdom has named the form 'form'

<form method="post" action="/cgi-bin/RNAfold.cgi" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="form"> <input type="hidden" name="PAGE" value="2">

i.e document.forms['form'].click()

But this would not click the input button

You can use the submit() function dot syntax'd on the end :

document.forms['form'].submit()

Safari Applescript : do JavaScript "document.forms['form'].submit()"

Also

In the code I provided you in your last question. I used:

tell document 1

        do JavaScript "document.getElementsByClassName('proceed')[0].click()"

    end tell

This uses the class Name proceed of the forms input element seen here: class="proceed"

<input value="" name="proceed" type="submit" class="proceed" onmouseover="this.style.cursor="pointer"" style="cursor: pointer;">

The getElementsByClassName('proceed')[0] does exactly what it says.

It gets the Elements By ClassName 'proceed'.

The [0] means it will give you the first element in it's results from the Array that would be returned. The array is counted from 0-9. So the first item would be item 0.

A good place to get working examples and information about Javascript is at www.w3schools.com On the front page the have links to their HTML and Javascript examples and Tutorials. The elements of the HTML Dom and Javascript functions are listed for easy access.

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