Get data from webpage into a table

Question

I am looking to get data from http://www.sportinglife.com/greyhounds/abc-guide and insert it into a table within Java. As you can see from the webpage, there is already a table with two columns, dog name and race. That is what I would like to replicate within my Java program, and then use JavaFX to output the table to a table view.

What would you recommend as the best way to do this using Java?

you need to manipulate dom – Madhawa Priyashantha Oct 16 '14 at 09:57 — Madhawa Priyashantha, Oct 16 '14 at 09:57

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:02

You need to read the HTML from the web page and then parse the HTML DOM to get the table data

String url = "http://www.sportinglife.com/greyhounds/abc-guide";
URL obj = new URL(url);
HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) obj.openConnection();

// optional default is GET
con.setRequestMethod("GET");

//add request header
con.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", USER_AGENT);

int responseCode = con.getResponseCode();
System.out.println("\nSending 'GET' request to URL : " + url);
System.out.println("Response Code : " + responseCode);

BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream()));
String inputLine;
StringBuffer response = new StringBuffer();

while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
    response.append(inputLine);
}
in.close();
//print result
System.out.println(response.toString());

For parsing you can refer Java HTML Parsing

Thanks, will have a go with this method now! – re0603 Oct 18 '14 at 08:39 — re0603, Oct 18 '14 at 08:39

Get data from webpage into a table

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