Is it possible to find broken links on a webpage using Selenium Webdriver

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May 17, 2019 in Selenium by Pragya
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Hi Pragya, this piece of code worked for me to find broken links in a webpage:

package brokenLinksPkg;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Iterator;
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 {
    
    private static WebDriver driver = null;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        
        String homePage = "https://www.quora.com/";
        String url = "";
        HttpURLConnection huc = null;
        int respCode = 200;
        
        driver = new ChromeDriver();
        
        driver.manage().window().maximize();
        
        driver.get(homePage);
        
        List<WebElement> links = driver.findElements(By.tagName("a"));
        
        Iterator<WebElement> it = links.iterator();
        
        while(it.hasNext()){
            
            url = it.next().getAttribute("href");
            
            System.out.println(url);
        
            if(url == null || url.isEmpty()){
System.out.println("URL is either not configured for anchor tag or it is empty");
                continue;
            }
            
            if(!url.startsWith(homePage)){
                System.out.println("URL belongs to another domain, skipping it.");
                continue;
            }
            
            try {
                huc = (HttpURLConnection)(new URL(url).openConnection());
                
                huc.setRequestMethod("HEAD");
                
                huc.connect();
                
                respCode = huc.getResponseCode();
                
                if(respCode >= 400){
                    System.out.println(url+" is a broken link");
                }
                else{
                    System.out.println(url+" is a valid link");
                }
                    
            } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
        
        driver.quit();

    }
}
answered May 17, 2019 by Abha
• 28,140 points
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Yes it is possible to find broken links on a website using selenium code. This article contains detail code to fetch links, broken links 
http://mundrisoft.com/tech-bytes/code-to-identify-all-web-broken-links-of-a-website/

answered Jul 25, 2019 by anonymous
Hi, thank you for sharing the solution for finding broken links. But it would be great if you could share your code here on the portal, as many people finds it easier.

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