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<a class="a-link-normal a-text-normal" 

   href="/Cay-S.-Horstmann/e/B000AQ1QDY/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1542117551&amp;sr=8-1-spons">

    Cay S. Horstmann

</a>

What I mean is it possible to get Cay S. Horstmann text from above tag?

Now I'm trying to get it like this:

link.findElement(By.cssSelector("a.a-link-normal.a-text-normal")).getText());

But it just outputs an empty string ...

public class AmazonSearchResultsPage {

    public AmazonSearchResultsPage(WebDriver driver) {

        PageFactory.initElements(driver, this);

        this.driver = driver;

    }



    public WebDriver driver;



    @FindBy(css = "#s-results-list-atf")

    public WebElement searchResults;



    public void getBooksInfo () {

        List<WebElement> links = searchResults.findElements(By.tagName("li"));



        if (links.size() > 0) {

            String title, author, price, rating, isBestSeller;



            for (int i = 0; i < links.size(); i++) {

                title = links.get(i).findElement(By.cssSelector("h2.a-size-medium.s-inline.s-access-title.a-text-normal")).getText();

                author = links.get(i).findElement(By.cssSelector("a.a-link-normal.a-text-normal")).getText());

            }

        }

        else System.out.println("Your search has no results");

    }

}

Update from comments

I'm trying to get books author name from searched books page on amazon.com, for example you can visit this link with search query "Java "amazon.com/s/… , I tried to get author name from there.

As per your question update to retrieve the books author name you need to induce WebDriverWait for the desired elements to be visible and you can use either of the following solutions:

• 
  

  cssSelector:

  
  
  

  List<WebElement> author_name_elements = new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfAllElementsLocatedBy(By.cssSelector("ul#s-results-list-atf span.a-size-small.a-color-secondary>a.a-link-normal.a-text-normal")));
  
  for (WebElement author_name:author_name_elements){
  
      System.out.println(author_name.getText());
  
  

  
  


• 
  

  XPATH:

  
  
  

  List<WebElement> author_name_elements = new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfAllElementsLocatedBy(By.xpath("//ul[@id='s-results-list-atf']//span[contains(.,'by')]//following::span[1]/a[@class='a-link-normal a-text-normal']")));
  
  for (WebElement author_name:author_name_elements){
  
      System.out.println(author_name.getText());
  
  

  
  

Well, from the URL I am able to extract the info.

@Test

    public static void testMF(){

        WebDriver driver;

        System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","./src/drivers/geckodriver64bit.exe");

        driver=new FirefoxDriver();

        driver.get("https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Java&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3AJava");

        List<WebElement> authorNames=driver.findElements(By.xpath("//a[contains(@href,'/Cay-S.-Horstmann/')]"));

        for (WebElement author:authorNames){

            System.out.println(author.getText());

        }

    }

and here is the console output with the author name:

[RemoteTestNG] detected TestNG version 6.14.2

1542125453774   mozrunner::runner   INFO    Running command: "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" "-marionette" "-foreground" "-no-remote" "-profile" "C:\Users\Dhamo\AppData\Local\Temp\rust_mozprofile.ZTVooPdHTxOZ"

1542125455373   Marionette  INFO    Listening on port 63531

1542125455395   Marionette  WARN    TLS certificate errors will be ignored for this session

Nov 13, 2018 10:10:55 AM org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake createSession

INFO: Detected dialect: W3C

Cay S. Horstmann

Cay S. Horstmann

Code for updated question:

public static void testMF() {

    WebDriver driver;

    System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "./src/drivers/geckodriver64bit.exe");

    driver = new FirefoxDriver();



    driver.get(

            "https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Java&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3AJava");



    List<WebElement> searchResults = driver.findElements(By

            .xpath("//div[@class='s-item-container'][1]/div/div/div[@class='a-fixed-left-grid-col a-col-right']"));

    System.out.println(searchResults.size());

    try {

        if (searchResults.size() > 0) {

            String title, author = null;

            int i = 0;

            for (WebElement el : searchResults) {

                ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView();", el);

                i++;

                title = el.findElement(By.cssSelector("h2.a-size-medium.s-inline.s-access-title.a-text-normal"))

                        .getText();

                System.out.println("Title:" + i + "-" + title);

                if(el.findElements(By.cssSelector("div.a-row.a-spacing-small > div:nth-child(2)")).size()>0){

                    author = el.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.a-row.a-spacing-small > div:nth-child(2)")).getText();

                }

                System.out.println("Author:" + i + "-" + (author.isEmpty()?"Author Not Found":author));

            }

        } else

            System.out.println("Your search has no results");

    } catch (Exception e) {

        System.out.println(e.getLocalizedMessage());

    }

}