Possible to reach into a new tab?

[msencenb]

Hey! So far I'm loving this project. I'm working on a script to automate the pulling of some reports.

Sometimes when I click the submit button with chromeless the report opens in a new tab. At this point I want to reach into that new tab and click the 'download' button.

Is that currently, or theoretically, possible with chromeless?

[joelgriffith]

Definitely possible, but not something that is functioning inside chromeless at the moment. The protocol that chromeless consumes has the ability to do this, but it'll probably be some time before any of us can add this feature :(

[msencenb]

Is that protocol CDP? https://github.com/cyrus-and/chrome-remote-interface

[joelgriffith]

Yup! Alternatively you could (if possible) grab the link that that button/anchor produces and use it to finish your report scraping. Anyways, for what it's worth

[msencenb]

Thanks - good thought as well on grabbing the link. I might be able to intercept the link with evaluate which I'll try, if not I'll look into cdp (no promises! depends on how much my requirements change at the job).