Get HTML code from url in android

Question

I was wondering if is any way to get HTML code from any url and save that code as String in code? I have a method:

private String getHtmlData(Context context, String data){
    String head = "<head><style>@font-face {font-family: 'verdana';src: url('file://"+ context.getFilesDir().getAbsolutePath()+ "/verdana.ttf');}body {font-family: 'verdana';}</style></head>";
    String htmlData= "<html>"+head+"<body>"+data+"</body></html>" ;
    return htmlData;
 }

and I want to get this "data" from url. How I can do that?

eMi · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-10T08:21:47.393

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Try this (wrote it from the hand)

URL google = new URL("http://www.google.com/");
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(google.openStream()));
String input;
StringBuffer stringBuffer = new StringBuffer();
while ((input = in.readLine()) != null)
{
    stringBuffer.append(input);
}
in.close();
String htmlData = stringBuffer.toString();

edited Jun 10 '13 at 08:21

answered Jun 10 '13 at 08:16

eMi

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I get 06-10 10:43:45.094: E/AndroidRuntime(7210): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.example.fontfordroid/com.example.fontfordroid.MainActivity}: android.os.NetworkOnMainThreadException – edi233 Jun 10 '13 at 08:45
did you give your app internet permission? – eMi Jun 10 '13 at 08:56
its strange, I just tested it by myself and it works fine! Else take a look here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2423498/how-to-get-the-html-source-of-a-page-from-a-html-link-in-android – eMi Jun 10 '13 at 09:20
You paste this code in Thread or AsyncTask? I paste this code in onCreate. – edi233 Jun 10 '13 at 09:37
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From API LEVEL 11, you cannot perform network related task on main thread, you have to do it in another thread. Otherwise you will get an exception "android.os.NetworkOnMainThreadException". – nikhil.thakkar Jun 10 '13 at 09:39
I'm using it in AsyncTask. Perform all the network related task in separate thread. Your problem should get solved. – eMi Jun 10 '13 at 09:41

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 10 '13 at 08:15

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Sure you can. That's actually the response body. You can get it like this:

HttpResponse response = client.execute(post);
String htmlPage = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity(), "ISO-8859-1");

answered Jun 10 '13 at 08:15

Enrichman

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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take a look at this please, any other parser will work too, or you can even make your own checking the strings and retrieving just the part you want.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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answered Jun 10 '13 at 08:14

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Get HTML code from url in android

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