How to show text from a website?

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I am trying to capture the text of a page and then display it in my application. But when I run the program does not display the text. The site is http://www.bovalpo.com/cgi-local/xml_bcv.pl?URL=1

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_examplebackground);

    try {
        URL url = new URL("http://www.bovalpo.com/cgi-local/xml_bcv.pl?URL=1"); 
        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(url.openStream()));

        String inputLine="";
        String inputText = ""; 
        while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
            inputText = inputText + inputLine;
        }

        System.out.println(inputText);
    }catch(MalformedURLException t){
        System.out.println("error de url");
    } catch(Throwable t){
        System.out.println("error de bufffer");
    }
}

or http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2423498/how-to-get-the-html-source-of-a-page-from-a-html-link-in-android — Kevin Coppock, Jul 11 '12 at 16:13
Have you verified that the inputstream actually opened before you read it? — ThN, Jul 11 '12 at 16:27
only need show "abierto" in the app, captured from this site — Edwin Nicolás Rojas Gálvez, Jul 11 '12 at 16:45
You should not be doing any web requests on the main ui thread. Do it on a separate thread or use async task. — Orlymee, Jul 12 '12 at 10:53

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 12 '12 at 06:31

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You the formats of text are different. You need to encode both of them in UTF format.

Encode it something like:

String data = URLEncoder.encode("data", "UTF-8");

edited Jul 12 '12 at 06:31

Praveenkumar

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answered Jul 11 '12 at 16:23

Anand Kumar

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 12 '12 at 06:43

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Don't use readLine if InputStream does not provides new line character, or, it will be blocked (waiting for new line character) there.

I suggest use apache-commons-io library to read text from InputStream

String charset = "UTF-8";
inputText = org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils.toString (url, charset);

answered Jul 12 '12 at 06:43

LiuYan 刘研

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im used httpURLConnection, InputStream BufferedReader :) – Edwin Nicolás Rojas Gálvez Jul 12 '12 at 13:18

How to show text from a website?

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