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JavaScript API

k6/http

Response

Response.clickLink( [params] )

Open source

Response.clickLink( [params] )

Create and make a request corresponding to a link, found in the HTML of response, being clicked. By default it will look for the first a tag with a href attribute in the HTML, but this can be overridden using the selector option.

This method takes an object argument where the following properties can be set:

Param	Type	Description
selector	string	A selector string passed to Selection.find(selector) to locate the link to click. By default this is `"a[href]"`.
params	object	A Params object that will be forwarded to the link click request. Can be used to set headers, cookies etc.

Returns

Type	Description
Response	The link click response

Example

import http from 'k6/http';

export default function () {
  // Request page with links
  let res = http.get('https://httpbin.test.k6.io/links/10/0');

  // Now, click the 4th link on the page
  res = res.clickLink({ selector: 'a:nth-child(4)' });
}