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javaseleniumwebdriver
Shahid Islam
Shahid Islam

Reputation: 15

How to find the auto suggestion on google search with Xpath

With Selenium webdriver, I am trying search 'Selenium' in google search box, which provides auto suggestions of several texts. Then I am trying to click one particular text from auto suggestions list. It seems though, my Xpath is not working.

Below is the code I wrote:

package com.initial.selenium;
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 GoogleSearch {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",
            "C:\\Users\\Shahid\\eclipse-
    workspace\\InitialSeleniumProject\\chromedriver.exe");
    WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
        driver.manage().window().maximize();
        driver.get("https://www.google.com");
        driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@name='q']")).sendKeys("selenium");
        List < WebElement >

            mylist=driver.findElements(By.xpath("//ul[@role='listbox']//li/descendant::div[@class='sbl1']/span"));
        System.out.println(mylist.size());
        for (int i = 0; i < mylist.size(); i++) {

            System.out.println(mylist.get(i).getText());
            if (mylist.get(i).getText().contains("Selenium Benefits")) {
                mylist.get(i).click();
                break;
            }

        }

    }

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2099

Answers (2)

dijyo
dijyo

Reputation: 11

Try this:

List<WebElement> options = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.numberOfElementsToBeMoreThan(By.xpath("//ul[@role='listbox']//li/descendant::span"), 0));

    System.out.println("no. of suggestions:"+options.size());
    
    for(int i=0;i<options.size();i++) {
        
        System.out.println(options.get(i).getText());
    }

Upvotes: 1

Squirrel
Squirrel

Reputation: 392

In this case, the error you're getting (a null result) is because the ul element you're targeting doesn't contain any elements.

Image displaying that the target ul doesn't contain any children

So, in this case, you're going to change your target. Instead of doing:

ul[@role='listbox']

Do

li[@role='presentation']

And that will result in

//li[@role='presentation']/descendant::div[@class='sbl1']/span

Which returns the span you're trying to get.

Upvotes: 0

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