How would I find the element offset position

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I am working on a bot that needs to click an element with no distinct attributes other than href which will change daily.  Its position on the page will also change daily.  It will always be at the same vertical position on the page as an element I can find.  So my thinking is if I can set the position of that element as a variable  I can then use that variable the element I need.  I just can't figure out how to do it.  My friend google lead me to the javascript to do it, but how would I then set that as a variable?  Is this possible?  Thanks in advance as always.

[Kazzo 9]

Can't you just make a picture and let the bot to click on the picture? Sometimes it solves the problem

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Can't you just make a picture and let the bot to click on the picture? Sometimes it solves the problem

unfortunately no.  there are several elements on the page that are identical.

[UBotBuddy 331]

I have been looking for a page like this for a while now to develop a tutorial.  Can you PM me the url so I can test with it?

 

Buddy

[steelersfan 38]

A good place to test this with is craigslist repost/renew page. That has many of the same elements over and over.

[itexspert 47]

Cant you Wildcard it?

[deliter 203]

forget about the ubot auto finding helper,that should only be used for a quick "dirty build" on a fairly coherent web page,best thing to do is use "$document text" and find the href,if the page isnt compiled by a cowboy,their should be some sort of coherent logic to the page( hopefully ha )

 

so each time the page loads,it reads the document text,have the line scraped to a variable,and ubot click href {#link}