Get All Links in Web Page – Selenium Java

Get All Links in Web Page

To get all the links (of anchor elements) in a web page using Selenium in Java, find the web elements with the tag name "a" using driver.findElements(By.tagName("a")). findElements() returns a List of web elements.

The following is a simple code snippet where we get all the link elements using Selenium.

List<WebElement> links = driver.findElements(By.tagName("a"));

And then, in a loop, we can access the actual link by getting the "href" attribute value using getAttribute("href").

Example

In the following, we write Selenium Java program to visit google.com, and extract all the links in this web page.

Java Program

import java.util.List;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class MyAppTest {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/usr/local/bin/chromedriver");  
		WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
		driver.get("https://google.com/ncr");
		
		List<WebElement> links = driver.findElements(By.tagName("a"));
		
		for(WebElement link: links) {
			System.out.println(link.getAttribute("href"));
		}
		
		driver.quit();
	}
}

Screenshots

1. Initialize web driver and visit google.com.

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("https://google.com/ncr");

2. Find all Web Elements with the tag name "a".

List<WebElement> links = driver.findElements(By.tagName("a"));

Print the link’s href attribute to console, for all the link elements.

for(WebElement link: links) {
	System.out.println(link.getAttribute("href"));
}