Finding the Broken HyperLinks

HyperLinks in HTML useful to navigate to another web-page.
HyperLinks are defined using the tag name-a using an attribute name href.
We need to define the Link text between the tag name to get the text displayed on the web-page.
Clicking on the link redirected to a new window or in the same window. This can be defined using an attribute target.

target=_self -> opens the web-page in the same window
target=_blank -> opens the web-page in a new window

Using Locators in Selenium WebDriver, we can automate the steps to click on the link to navigate to a page defined under the attribute href as defined below:
Link_Text

href =”http://total-qa.com” target=”_blank”
Scenario:
Is there any way to identify the broken links using Selenium WebDriver?

HTTP ERROR CODE : 404

The below logic helps in identifying the broken links.
Currently we are using WebDriverManager to instantiate the Driver Instance.

package org.totalqa;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
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;
import io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManager;
public class BrokenLinks {
	
	public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
		WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup();
		WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
		driver.get("http://www.total-qa.com/");
		List<WebElement> links = driver.findElements(By.tagName("a"));
		for(int i=0; i<links.size(); i++) {
			WebElement element = links.get(i);
			String url=element.getAttribute("href");
			URL link = new URL(url);
			HttpURLConnection con =(HttpURLConnection)link.openConnection();
			System.out.println(con.getResponseCode());
			if(con.getResponseCode()!= 200)
			{
				System.out.println("Response Code for Broken Link" +con.getResponseCode() );
				System.out.println("Broken Link  :: " + con.getURL());
			}
			else
			{
				System.out.println("Link is working fine :: " + con.getURL());
			 
			}
		}

	}

}

package org.totalqa;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.net.HttpURLConnection;

import java.net.URL;

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;

import io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManager;

public class BrokenLinks {

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup();

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

driver.get("http://www.total-qa.com/");

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

for(int i=0; i<links.size(); i++) {

WebElement element = links.get(i);

String url=element.getAttribute("href");

URL link = new URL(url);

HttpURLConnection con =(HttpURLConnection)link.openConnection();

System.out.println(con.getResponseCode());

if(con.getResponseCode()!= 200)

{

System.out.println("Response Code for Broken Link" +con.getResponseCode() );

System.out.println("Broken Link :: " + con.getURL());

}

else

{

System.out.println("Link is working fine :: " + con.getURL());

}

Conclusion:
Broken links in a web-page are identified using Selenium and Java API.

Total-QA

Automation Tools

Finding the Broken HyperLinks

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