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Selenium java - basic full working example with selenium maven dependency
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Overview
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:
C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\chromedriver.exe
Change location of chrome driver or ensure you have it under above location.
Example 1
Java selenium - read header name from wikipedia article.
Wikipedia article link:
package com.dirask.read_header_name_from_wikipedia;
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;
public class Example {
public static void main(String[] args) {
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("--window-size=1366,768");
String chromeDriverPath = "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\chromedriver.exe";
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", chromeDriverPath);
WebDriver webDriver = new ChromeDriver(options);
try {
String filePath = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)";
webDriver.get(filePath);
WebElement element = webDriver.findElement(By.id("firstHeading"));
System.out.println(element.getText()); // Java (programming language)
} finally {
webDriver.close();
webDriver.quit();
}
}
}
Output
Java (programming language)
Example 2
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:
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="test-id">Test</div>
</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.
package com.dirask.read_html_file_from_disc_instead_of_url_website;
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;
/**
* 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 {
public static void main(String[] args) {
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("--window-size=1366,768");
String chromeDriverPath = "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\chromedriver.exe";
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", chromeDriverPath);
WebDriver webDriver = new ChromeDriver(options);
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);
WebElement element = webDriver.findElement(By.id("test-id"));
System.out.println(element.getText()); // Test
} finally {
webDriver.close();
webDriver.quit();
}
}
}
Output:
Test
Github repository links
Download entire project:
Link to github repo here: