Capturing all Links in a page, filtering and visiting filtered pages.

Purpose: Capturing all Links in a page, filtering and visiting filtered pages.


In general while testing any application we are facing a situation where we need to visit specific link available on the Web Page. The Following script help floks how to handle it.

In the following example, I am going to visit 'www.google.com', captures all the links available on the page, filter the required link and visit that link page.

import java.util.List;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class Links {
 public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {

  WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
  driver.get("http://www.tata.com/");
  driver.manage().window().maximize();
//  Extract all links from the webpage using selenium webdriver
  List<WebElement> all_links_webpage = driver.findElements(By.tagName("a"));

//  Print total no of links on the webpage
  System.out.println("Print total no of links on the webpage---------------------------------------------");
  System.out.println(all_links_webpage.size());

//  Filter the Link and visit that link
  System.out.println("Print Links------------------------------------------------------------------------");
  for(int i=0;i<all_links_webpage.size();i++)
  {
   Thread.sleep(1000);
   if(all_links_webpage.get(i).getText().toLowerCase().contains("contact"))
   {
    System.out.println("Search Resutl found");
   String link = all_links_webpage.get(i).getAttribute("href");
   driver.navigate().to(link);
   Thread.sleep(3000);
   break;
   }
  }
 driver.quit();
 }
}

How to Run Webdriver Script under Internet Explorer and Google Chrome

Purpose: How to Run Webdriver Script for Internet Explorer and Google Chrome

Running Webdriver script for Internet Explorer & Chrome is not as same as working with Firefox browser. Following are the steps to Run:

Step 1: In order to run, we need to download IE Driver & Chrome Driver and we can download from https://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/detail?name=IEDriverServer_Win32_2.31.0.zip
https://code.google.com/p/chromedriver/downloads/list

Step 2: Include the respective drivers in to the Path

Step 3: Set the System property using the following Command which takes two parameters Driver and location of the driver.

System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", "Drivers\\IEDriverServer.exe");

Step 4: Now create an Driver Object for IE using the following command

driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();

Once we start running the script Internet Explorer will open and execute script.

Following is the sample code for IE and kept commented code for Google Chrome

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterClass;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
public class DriversExample{
private static InternetExplorerDriver driver;
//private static ChromeDriver driver;
@BeforeClass
 public void beforeClass()
 {
  System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", "Drivers\\IEDriverServer.exe");
  driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
//  System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "Drivers\\chromedriver.exe");
//  driver = new ChromeDriver();
  }
@Test
 public void testDrivers() throws Exception
 {
  driver.get("http://www.google.com");
  Thread.sleep(3000);
 }
@AfterClass
 public void afterClass()
 {
  driver.close();
 }
}