Get all the links in a webpage and click one by one

[SriHari Innamuri]

how to get all the links into an array and read one by one, if my
input input link name matches then it has to click on that. How to do
this process in selenium with java. Any one of you please give the
code.

[Sarvesh Singh]

document.links.length will return an integer count of links in the page.

- sarvesh

[Mark Collin]

String linkName = "My Link Name";
List<WebElement> elementList = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//a"));
for(WebElement myElement : elementList){
if(myElement.getText().equals(linkName)){
myElement.click();
}
}

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[Luke Inman-Semerau]

That will break if there's more than one link that matches linkName.

If you want web crawler like functionality (think the google search
bot). Then you need to maintain a list of pages to visit (full urls)
and pages you have visited. Then for every page you visit you get the
link destination without clicking it (href attribute is a common way
to get this), check that you haven't visited it yet and then add it to
you to visit list.

-Luke

On Jun 21, 2011, at 6:42 AM, "Mark Collin" <ma...@ardescosolutions.com>
wrote:

[Mark Collin]

In that case:

String linkName = "My Link Name";

List<WebElement> elementList = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//a"));

for(WebElement myElement : elementList){
if(myElement.getText().equals(linkName)){
myElement.click();

break;
}
}

It's just an example to be expanded upon, but it should give an idea of how
to do it.

You could also iterate a counter to find out the number of links, or click
on the link and then go back and try then next link e.g.:

if(myElement.getText().equals(linkName)){
myElement.click();
driver.navigate().back();
}

The possibilities are endless... ;)

-Luke

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