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 basic understanding of HTML, you must be aware of the fact that all hyperlinks are of type anchor tag or 'a'.
Navigate to the desired webpage
Get list of WebElements with tagname 'a' using driver.findElements()-
Traverse through the list using for-each loop
Print the link text using getText() along with its address using getAttribute("href")
If you have 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"));
