Selenium webdriver click google search

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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

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Simple Xpath for locating Google search box is  Xpath   span text    Google Search

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Test public void google Search         WebDriver driver      driver   new FirefoxDriver        driver get  http   www google com        driver manage   window   maximize         WebElement element   driver findElement By name  q         element sendKeys  Cheese  n        element submit           Wait until the google page shows the result     WebElement myDynamicElement    new WebDriverWait driver  10   until ExpectedConditions presenceOfElementLocated By id  resultStats           List lt WebElement gt  findElements   driver findElements By xpath       id  rso    h3 a            Get the url of third link and navigate to it     String third link   findElements get 2  getAttribute  href        driver navigate   to third link

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public class GoogleSearch        public static void main String   args             WebDriver driver new FirefoxDriver            driver get  http   www google com            driver findElement By xpath    input  type  text      sendKeys  Cheese               driver findElement By xpath    button  name  btnG      click            driver manage   timeouts   implicitlyWait 30 TimeUnit SECONDS            driver findElement By xpath     h3  class  r   a  3     click            driver manage   timeouts   implicitlyWait 30 TimeUnit SECONDS

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Most of the answers on this page are outdated  Here s an updated python version to search google and get all results href s   import urllib parse import re from selenium import webdriver driver get  https   google com    q   driver find element by name  q   q send keys  always look on the bright side of life monty python   q submit    sleep 1  links  driver find elements by xpath    h3  class  r    a   for link in links      url   urllib parse unquote webElement get attribute  href      decode the url     url   re sub         url  q        amp sa     r  1   url  0  re IGNORECASE    get the clean url     Please note that the element id name class   class  r      will change depending on the user agent    The above code used PhantomJS default user agent

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There would be multiple ways to find an element  in your case the third Google Search result    One of the ways would be using Xpath   For the 3rd Link driver findElement By xpath        id  rso   li 3  div h3 a    click     For the 1st Link driver findElement By xpath        id  rso   li 2  div h3 a    click     For the 2nd Link driver findElement By xpath        id  rso   li 1  div h3 a    click      The other options are   By ByClassName  By ByCssSelector  By ById By ByLinkText By ByName By ByPartialLinkText  By ByTagName    To better understand each one of them  you should try learning Selenium on something simpler than the Google Search Result page   Example - http   www google com intl gu contact   To Interact with the Text input field with the placeholder  How can we help  Ask here   You could do it this way -     By ByClassName  driver findElement By ClassName  searchbox    sendKeys  Hey       By ByCssSelector  driver findElement By CssSelector   searchbox    sendKeys  Hey       By ById driver findElement By Id  query    sendKeys  Hey       By ByName driver findElement By Name  query    sendKeys  Hey       By ByXpath driver findElement By xpath        id  query      sendKeys  Hey

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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 lt WebElement gt  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

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Based on quick inspection of google web  this would be CSS path to links in page list   ol id  rso   h3 class  r   a  So you should do something like  String path    ol id  rso   h3 class  r   a   driver findElements By cssSelector path   get 2  click      However you could also use xpath which is not really recommended as a best practice and also JQuery locators but I am not sure if you can use them aynywhere else except inArquillian Graphene

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