How to return the total number of links in a webpage and their names and URLs

How to return the total number of links in a webpage and their names and URLs

Solution: Use ChildObjects to get the link collection, then retrieve the properties

Use the ChildObjects method to retrieve all the links on the specified webpage. Once you have the collection, you can use the GetROProperty method to retrieve the innertext (name) and href (URL) values.

object.ChildObjects (pDescription)

object	A Page or Frame object.
pDescription	The description of the object to retrieve.

Use the Description object to store the description of the object type to retrieve.

Example:
‘ The sample was created against http://www.google.com
Set oDesc = Description.Create()
‘ Retrieve HTML tag <A>
oDesc(“html tag”).Value = “A”Set rc = Browser(“Google”).Page(“Google”).ChildObjects(oDesc)
num = rc.Count()

For i=0 to num-1
   tag = rc(i).GetROProperty(“innertext”)
   href = rc(i).GetROProperty(“href”)
   Reporter.ReportEvent 0, “Links in Page”, “name: ” & tag & “;    url: ” & href
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