get links in a web site

Question

how can i get links in a web page without loading it? (basically what i want is this. a user enters a URL and i want to load all the available links inside that URL.) can you please tell me a way to achieve this

Answer 1

You'll have to load the page on your server and then find the links, preferably by loading up the document in an HTML/XML parser and traversing that DOM. The server could then send the links back to the client.

You can't do it on the client because the browser won't let your Javascript code look at the contents of the page from a different domain.

Answer 2

If you want the content of a page you'll have to load it. But what you can do is loading it in memory and parse it to get all the <a> tags and their content.

You'll be able to parse this XML with tools like JDom or Sax if you're working with java (as your tag says) or with simple DOM tools with javascript.

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Resources :

• Parse XML with javascript

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Answer 3

Just open an URLConnection, gets the page and parse it.

Answer 4

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