Selenium webdriver click google search

Question

I'm searching text "Cheese!" on google homepage and unsure how can I can click on the searched links after pressing the search button. For example I wanted to click the third link from top on search page then how can I find identify the link and click on it. My code so far:

package mypackage;

import org.openqa.selenium.By; 

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement; 
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedCondition;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver; 
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;

public class myclass {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\selenium-java-2.35.0\\chromedriver_win32_2.2\\chromedriver.exe");

         WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(); 
         driver.get("http://www.google.com"); 
         WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
         element.sendKeys("Cheese!");
         element.submit();

         //driver.close();
    }



}

Answer 1

Google shrinks their css classes etc., so it is not easy to identify everything.

Also you have the problem that you have to "wait" until the site shows the result. I would do it like this:

public static void main(String[] args) {

    WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
    driver.get("http://www.google.com");
    WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
    element.sendKeys("Cheese!\n"); // send also a "\n"
    element.submit();

    // wait until the google page shows the result
    WebElement myDynamicElement = (new WebDriverWait(driver, 10))
              .until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.id("resultStats")));

    List<WebElement> findElements = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//*[@id='rso']//h3/a"));

    // this are all the links you like to visit
    for (WebElement webElement : findElements)
    {
        System.out.println(webElement.getAttribute("href"));
    }
}

This will print you:

• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese
• http://www.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/cheese.html
• http://www.cheese.com/
• http://projects.gnome.org/cheese/
• http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Cheese
• http://www.ilovecheese.com/
• http://cheese.slowfood.it/
• http://cheese.slowfood.it/en/
• http://www.slowfood.de/termine/termine_international/cheese_2013/