How to locate search links in google in Selenium for testing

Question

I am trying to search Google for Selenium, then run down the list of links by clicking each one, printing the page title, then navigating back.

List<WebElement> linkElements = driver.findElements( **<insert code here>** );

for(WebElement elem: linkElements)
{
    String text = elem.getText();
    driver.findElement(By.linkText(text)).click();
    System.out.println("Title of link\t:\t" + driver.getTitle());
    driver.navigate().back();
}

To find the elements, I have tried By.tagName("a") which doesn't work because it gets ALL the links, not just the search ones. Using Firebug, I see that each search link has a class of r used on the header h3, and the a tag nested inside it.

See the following:

<h3 class="r">
<a href="/url sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=selenium&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CC8QFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fseleniumhq.org%2F&amp;ei=y4eNUYiIGuS7iwL-r4DADA&amp;usg=AFQjCNHCelhj_BWssRX2H0HZCcPqhgBrRg&amp;sig2=WBhmm65gCH7RQxIv9vgrug&amp;bvm=bv.46340616,d.cGE" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','1','AFQjCNHCelhj_BWssRX2H0HZCcPqhgBrRg','WBhmm65gCH7RQxIv9vgrug','0CC8QFjAA','','',event)"><em>Selenium</em> - Web Browser Automation
</a></h3>

What code can I insert to make this work?

Omkar · Answer 1 · 2013-05-15T06:20:30.193

Try below New Code

    WebDriver driver;
    driver = new FirefoxDriver();
    driver.get("http://www.google.com");
    driver.findElement(By.id("gbqfq")).sendKeys("Selenium");
    Thread.sleep(1500L);
    driver.findElement(By.id("gbqfb")).click();
    Thread.sleep(1500L);
    List<WebElement> linkElements = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//h3[@class='r']/a"));
     for(int i=0;i<=linkElements.size();i++)
        {
            String text = linkElements.get(i).getText();
            driver.findElement(By.linkText(text)).click();
            Thread.sleep(2000L);
            System.out.println("Title of link\t:\t" + driver.getTitle());
            Thread.sleep(2000L);
            driver.navigate().back();
            linkElements = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//h3[@class='r']/a"));

        }

This does not actually work, and neither do the other solutions. Perhaps the xpath is wrong? — Rishi, May 15 '13 at 05:49

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 13 '13 at 06:57

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You have a lot of solution for doing it. There's mine. You keep your way like

// You get all links in a list
List<WebElement> linkElements = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//h3/a"));

// for each element(link) you click() on it
for(WebElement elem: linkElements)
{
  elem.click(); 
  // i suggest to put a wait right there
  System.out.println("Title of link\t:\t" + driver.getTitle());
  driver.navigate().back();
}

i don't know why you were trying to complicate with getText() etc.

answered May 13 '13 at 06:57

e1che

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This does not actually work, and neither do the other solutions. Perhaps the xpath is wrong? – Rishi May 15 '13 at 05:50
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@user1796994 let's try with this `By.cssSelector("h3.r a")` or `By.xpath("//h3[@class='3']/a")` – e1che May 15 '13 at 12:56

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 21 '13 at 21:29

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try searching for this selector:

    '.g:nth-child('+clickPosition+') h3.r a'

where "clickPosition" is the SERP result array key. Careful though, google now implements an "onmousedown" event that will change the href attribute to their redirect.

answered Nov 21 '13 at 21:29

tpickett

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How to locate search links in google in Selenium for testing

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