diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/DomCrawler/Crawler.php b/src/Symfony/Component/DomCrawler/Crawler.php
index ddeb57f768..7679ce6d8f 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/DomCrawler/Crawler.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/DomCrawler/Crawler.php
@@ -789,7 +789,7 @@ class Crawler extends \SplObjectStorage
      *
      * @return \DOMElement|null
      */
-    protected function getNode($position)
+    public function getNode($position)
     {
         foreach ($this as $i => $node) {
             if ($i == $position) {