Html parser with java

Question

I have a simple question: Let's supose i have the next span:

<span class="data" id="random">
Here the piece of string i need
</span>

How can i get what's inside of the span?

Thx! :D

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-1 sorry, question needs more info ( also hints that you may mean javascript rather than java ) — Rob Sedgwick, May 18 '12 at 07:26

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 18 '12 at 07:19

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HTML Parser is a HTML parser for Java.

answered May 18 '12 at 07:19

cytinus

Yep, HTML Parser would do. But i don't want a whole project to work with; I just need a simple script that works fine... – ThisIsErico May 18 '12 at 07:28

Gengi · Answer 2 · 2012-05-18T07:28:26.837

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Try this: JSoup, is an HTML parser for Java.

Document doc = Jsoup.connect("LINK_TO_YOUR_PAGE").get();
Elements random = doc.select("#random");
System.out.println(random.html());

edited May 18 '12 at 07:28

answered May 18 '12 at 07:22

Gengi

score -1 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

-1

If you just want to use core classes rather than an HTML parser, you could use a regular expression to capture the contents of the span.

The "related" section for this question shows a lot of people asking similar parsing questions.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

Community

answered May 18 '12 at 07:19

chooban

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