Hello friends! at times during automation, we are required to fetch all the links present on a webpage. Also, this is one of the most frequent requirements of web-scrapping. In this tutorial, we will learn to fetch all the links present on a webpage by using tagname locator.
If you have a basic understanding of HTML, you must be aware of the fact that all hyperlinks are of type anchor tag or ‘a’.
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How to fetch all the links on a webpage?
- Navigate to the desired webpage
- Get list of WebElements with tagname ‘a’ using driver.findElements()-
List<WebElement> allLinks = driver.findElements(By.tagName(“a”)); - Traverse through the list using for-each loop
- Print the link text using getText() along with its address using getAttribute(“href”)
System.out.println(link.getText() + ” – ” + link.getAttribute(“href”));
Sample Code to Scrape Links
package seleniumTutorials;
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 GetAllLinks {
public static void main(String[] args){
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
//Launching sample website
driver.get("https://artoftesting.com/sampleSiteForSelenium");
driver.manage().window().maximize();
//Get list of web-elements with tagName - a
List<WebElement> allLinks = driver.findElements(By.tagName("a"));
//Traversing through the list and printing its text along with link address
for(WebElement link:allLinks){
System.out.println(link.getText() + " - " + link.getAttribute("href"));
}
//Commenting driver.quit() for user to easily verify the links
//driver.quit();
}
}
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Hi Kuldeep, in the above sample code, if I want to print the below format
System.out.println(index value of the link +”:”+ linktext), how can i do it?
Hi Chandra,
Try below lines for expected result
for(int i=0;i<allLinks.size();i++){
System.out.println(i +" : "+ allLinks.get(i).getText());
}
Thank you so much.
What if I want to click and open the link
There are different ways to do this. You can store all the links and then navigate to each URL.
if I want handle one of the link so which code is work
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How do I ignore random links and only want to get certain links from a div?
You have to write a more precise locator instead of just the ‘anchor’ tag.