Find and click a link?

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Certainly possible, tho it can, of course, be dangerous to follow a link simply on the basis of its label text, without checking its underlying href.

If you were going to do that, on safe pages that you know well, you could:

  1. use a (Safari or Chrome) 'Execute Javascript in ...' action to harvest links which match an xpath expression
  2. capture the resulting line(s) in a KM variable
  3. Use an 'Open URL' action (embedded in a foreach in case of multiple lines)

The Javascript (this version to capture a single link) might look something like this:

(function (strPath) {
    var r = document.evaluate(strPath, document, null, 0, null),
      lst = [],
      oNode;

    while (oNode = r.iterateNext()) {
          lst.push(oNode.href);
        }
        return lst[0];
})("//a[text()='" + document.kmvar.linkText + "']")