How Do I iterate through all the search results in Selenium returned by google search

Question

My test steps are-

• a) go to google.com
• b) in the search box start typing a keyword example "IBM"
• c) google displays all the matching results
• d) Get the count of matching results in a List of strings.

for (a), (b) I have:-

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Work\\chromedriver.exe");
        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
        driver.get("http://www.google.com");
        WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
        element.sendKeys("IBM");

The Question is how I do (d)?

Answer 1

I have checked the first two results and the locator is same.

So you can create a List of these elements by using FindElements method.

And then put logic to create list of only matching Strings out of it.

Answer 2

Hope this help you:-

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Work\\chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("http://www.google.com");
driver.manage().window().maximize();
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
element.sendKeys("IBM");
Thread.sleep(1000);
WebElement matchingResult= driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//div[@class='aajZCb']/ul"));
List<WebElement> listResult= matchingResult.findElements(By.xpath("//li/div/div[@class='sbtc']"));
System.out.println(listResult.size());
//if you want to print matching results
     for(WebElement results: listResult)
       {
         String value= results.getText();
         System.out.println(value);
       }     

Answer 3

While I didn't search for IBM I have done something similar with the a recipe search engine.

List<WebElement> searchList = new ArrayList<>(); //creates a list of webelements
    
    //grabbing the search results with a tag
    
    searchList.addAll(driver.findElements(By.tagName("a"))); 
    
    

    
    //Checking size of the arraylist
    
    System.out.println(searchList.size());
    
    
    

While as I said that it is not from google I do not know the exact tag you will be looking for this should be a valid answer. Once you have the list of WebElements it should show you the size of the list. If all you want is the umber of items.