JSoup won't extract javascript inserted text from webpage

Asked Jun 21 '15 at 19:18

Active Jun 21 '15 at 21:29

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I need to get a random word from a webpage and I'm using Jsoup to do this.

Here is the HTML code:

<script language="javascript">
function RandomWord() {
        var requestStr = "http://randomword.setgetgo.com/get.php";

        $.ajax({
            type: "GET",
            url: requestStr,
            dataType: "jsonp",
            jsonpCallback: 'RandomWordComplete'
        });
    }

    function RandomWordComplete(data) {
        $("#body").html(data.Word);
    }
</script>
<body id="body" onload="RandomWord();">

</body>

and here is the java code:

public static void getRandomWord() throws MalformedURLException, IOException {
        Document doc = Jsoup.connect("http://mywebsite.net/rand.html").get();
        Elements body = doc.select("#body");
        System.out.println(doc.text());
    }

When I run this the output is empty.. Not sure what the problem is.

edited Jun 21 '15 at 19:20

asked Jun 21 '15 at 19:18

Gawndy

2

Problem is that Jsoup is parser, not browser emulator so it doesn't support JavaScript. You need other tool like Selenium web driver. – Pshemo Jun 21 '15 at 19:20
Oh... Okay thank you! – Gawndy Jun 21 '15 at 19:39

JSoup won't extract javascript inserted text from webpage

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