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Issue created Feb 21, 2022 by michaelpapesch@michaelpapesch

How can i make customCrawl click on specific elements?

I want to make my customcrawl click on elements. They dont have a href, but a js onclick event.

Is this possible, and how and where in the code can this be done?

My code is:

const HCCrawler = require('headless-chrome-crawler');

(async () => {
    const crawler = await HCCrawler.launch({
        headless: true,
        args: [
            '--ignore-certificate-errors',
            '--no-sandbox',
            '--disable-setuid-sandbox',
            '--disable-accelerated-2d-canvas',
            '--disable-gpu'
        ],
        maxDepth: 8,
        waitUntil: "networkidle0",
        customCrawl: async (page, crawl) => {

            await page.setViewport({
                width: 1200,
                height: 800
            });

            const result = await crawl();
            return result;
        },
        onSuccess: result => {
        },
        onError: error => {
            console.log(error);
        },
    });
    await crawler.queue(url);
    await crawler.onIdle();
    await crawler.close().then(() => connection.end());
})();
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