Reading Website Contents Java

Question

I'm developing an android application where in a website I programmatically submit data into search box and retrieve results by Java.

I get the data by using URLConnect Java. I get the source code ie html code......

Urlconnection a = .connect to host

getinputstream

read data

I use these functions now if the site has content like:

sahil
3/5 patel chowk
965955

since these details will be inside html tags i want to extract this information . any idea?

solved problem . thanks a lot – Sahil Manchanda Jul 08 '13 at 11:46 — Sahil Manchanda, Jul 08 '13 at 11:46

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 17 '12 at 15:18

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Have you had a look at JSoup: http://jsoup.org/ its an HTML parser should do what you need.

answered Jun 17 '12 at 15:18

David Kroukamp

amazing .. even i heard about JSON. wats dat – Sahil Manchanda Jun 17 '12 at 15:23
JSoup is a Java library for working with real-world HTML. It provides a very convenient API for extracting and manipulating data, using the best of DOM, CSS, and jquery-like methods. – David Kroukamp Jun 17 '12 at 15:33

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:45

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in my guess using regular expression in this case will be a good fit to you: How to use regular expressions to parse HTML in Java?

edited May 23 '17 at 11:45

Community

answered Jun 17 '12 at 15:20

christian.vogel

but since page is very big. i need to extract a very small area..how to jump their dirct – Sahil Manchanda Jun 17 '12 at 15:25
with using libraries like @David already mentioned its easy to have a large page as input. its parsing the whole page for a specific condition you gave the parser as input. so dont worry about that. Just have a look to JSoup and the samples provided on the page. – christian.vogel Jun 17 '12 at 15:31

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 17 '12 at 17:28

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Use JTiddy It is easy to use java library for extracting content from html page.

answered Jun 17 '12 at 17:28

Sunny

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