Selenium Broken Links | How To Find Broken Links in Selenium Webdriver Java

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Broken Links

HTTP Response / Status Code

200: Valid Link

400: Bad Request (Bad URL)

404: Web Page Not Found

405: Server knows the request method, target resource doesn’t support this method

503: Server is overloaded and can not process request

 

Broken if response code>=400

Anchor tag

<a href=”www.comrevo.com”>Click here</a>

Program Code (BrokenLinks):

package main;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.net.HttpURLConnection;

import java.net.MalformedURLException;

import java.net.URL;

import java.time.Duration;

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 BrokenLinks {

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

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\selenium\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe");

WebDriver driver=new ChromeDriver();

driver.get("https://pict.edu/extracurricular/");

driver.manage().window().maximize();

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(Duration.ofSeconds(20));

driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(30));

List<WebElement> links=driver.findElements(By.xpath("//a[contains(@href,'.')]"));

for(WebElement link : links)

{

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

HttpURLConnection con=(HttpURLConnection) new URL(url).openConnection();

con.setRequestMethod("HEAD");

con.connect();

int respcode=con.getResponseCode();

if(respcode>=400)

{

System.out.println("Link Text:"+link.getText()+" Response Code:"+respcode);

}

}

driver.quit();

}

}

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