Clicking through multiple javascript links with webdriver

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So heres the thing I have to do. I want to go to a site like http://www.walmart.com/catalog/allReviews.do?product_id=16561041 and expand all the reviews on the page. I require the reviews to be fully open because I need to collect this data. My current code works but is extremely slow.

public void clickAllLinks(String linkText){
    for(int j = 0; j < 20 ; j++){
        try{
        if(driver.findElement(By.linkText("(read full review)")).isDisplayed())
            driver.findElement(By.linkText(linkText)).click();
        }catch(NoSuchElementException e){break;}
    }
}

Im using selenium 2.21 with firefox driver. Does anyone have any suggestions? I am fairly new to using selenium so my knowledge of it is fairly limited compared to most of you out there.

Petr Janeček · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-25 10:04:54Z

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Use driver.findElements() instead of driver.findElement(). Then simply click all links one by one in loop.

If this will not help - try to profile you code. Also you can write some js to click all links.

edited May 25, 2012 at 10:04

Petr Janeček

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answered May 24, 2012 at 23:49

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AlbChu Over a year ago

Thank you, that was so simple and yet it sped things up to 1/10th the time of the original

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