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Selenium java - basic full working example with selenium maven dependency

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Overview

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In this short article we would like to show you basic usage of selenium in java.

This article contains 2 examples:

Example 1 - java selenium - read header name from wikipedia article.
Example 2 - java selenium - read HTML file from disc instead of website.

In below examples we hard coded (for simplicity reason) path to chrome driver:

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C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\chromedriver.exe

Change location of chrome driver or ensure you have it under above location.

Example 1

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Java selenium - read header name from wikipedia article.

Wikipedia article link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)

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package com.dirask.read_header_name_from_wikipedia;
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import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;
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public class Example {
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    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
        options.addArguments("--window-size=1366,768");
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        String chromeDriverPath = "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\chromedriver.exe";
        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", chromeDriverPath);
        WebDriver webDriver = new ChromeDriver(options);
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        try {
            String filePath = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)";
            webDriver.get(filePath);
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            WebElement element = webDriver.findElement(By.id("firstHeading"));
            System.out.println(element.getText()); // Java (programming language)
        } finally {
            webDriver.close();
            webDriver.quit();
        }
    }
}

Output

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Java (programming language)

Example 2

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Selenium application to read HTML file from disc instead of website. Selenium WebDriver can read the website from URL or from our disc.

example.html file:

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<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Title</title>
</head>
<body>
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<div id="test-id">Test</div>
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</body>
</html>

In below example I hard coded the lcoation of example.html.

Ensure the path to example.html file is correct. If the path is not correct we will get exception.

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package com.dirask.read_html_file_from_disc_instead_of_url_website;
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import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;
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/**
 * If you run this example on windows put entire project in this dir:
 * C:/projects/selenium_java_examples_by_dirask_com/
 * or modify below absolute filePath
 */
public class Example {
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    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
        options.addArguments("--window-size=1366,768");
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        String chromeDriverPath = "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\chromedriver.exe";
        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", chromeDriverPath);
        WebDriver webDriver = new ChromeDriver(options);
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        try {
            // modify location of the file, according to your project location
            String filePath = "file:///" +
                    "C:/projects/selenium_java_examples_by_dirask_com/" +
                    "src/com/dirask/read_html_file_from_disc_instead_of_url_website/" +
                    "example.html";
            webDriver.get(filePath);
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            WebElement element = webDriver.findElement(By.id("test-id"));
            System.out.println(element.getText()); // Test
        } finally {
            webDriver.close();
            webDriver.quit();
        }
    }
}