Selenium IDE: Verify broken link 404 not found? - selenium

Question

Any one have any idea whether Selenium IDE able to verify any broken link in page??

Answer 1

Short answer: yes, but probably not the best idea.
Selenium might not be the best program to do this - especially if you use only Selenium IDE.
Multiple programs exist with the sole purpose of testing broken links (do a little search), hell, even the W3C has a webapp for that.
That said, you could take the output from Selenium IDE formatted to your favourite language, program a Selenium test case with more advanced Unit Testing classes, include a while loop which would check for the existence of more links, and visit them / check headers, if you really want to do this through Selenium.

Answer 2

In short, you can't (yet). See a more full writeup of the situation at: How do I ask Selenium IDE to check a HTTP Status Code (e.g. 2XX, 404, 500)
Basically the selenium maintainers decided this function did not belong in selenium because error codes are read by machines not humans.

Answer 3

This sounds like a job for a simple spider script, for example using the wget on Linux
--spider
When invoked with this option, Wget will behave as a Web spider,
which means that it will not download the pages, just check that
they are there. For example, you can use Wget to check your book‐
marks:
wget --spider --force-html -i bookmarks.html
This feature needs much more work for Wget to get close to the
functionality of real web spiders.

Answer 4

You can use 404 status code to verify using REST web services.
Use gson and apache jars to get it.
public class Testing{
public static void main(String[] args) {
try{
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.manage().window().maximize();
driver.navigate().to("https://www.amazon.in/");
List<WebElement> links = driver.findElements(By.tagName("a"));
System.out.println("Number of links : " + links.size());
for(WebElement e : links) {
String linkText = e.getAttribute("href");
System.out.println("Link -->>" +linkText);
if(linkText!=null && !linkText.isEmpty()) {
HttpPost post = new HttpPost(linkText);
HttpClient client = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();
HttpResponse res = client.execute(post);
String s = res.getStatusLine().toString();
if(s.contains("404")) {
System.out.println("Navigated");
//your code to handle logic
} else {
//your code to handle logic with other response code
}
}
}
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println(e.getStackTrace());
}
}
}