jsoup

How to "scan" a website (or page) for info, and bring it into my program?

Well, I'm pretty much trying to figure out how to pull information from a webpage, and bring it into my program (in Java). For example, if I know the exact page I want info from, for the sake of simplicity a Best Buy item page, how would I get the appropriate info I need off of that page? Like the title, price, description? What woul...

How do I convert a string to UTF-8 in Android?

I am using a html parser called jsoap, to load and parse html files. The problem is that the webpage I'm scraping is encoded in ISO-8859-1 charset while Android is using UTF-8 encoding(?). This is results in some characters shows up as question marks. So now I guess I should convert the string to UTF-8 format. Now I have found this Cla...

Jsoup image tag extraction ..

hello, i need to extract an image tag using jsoup from this html <div class="picture"> <img src="http://asdasd/aacb.jpgs" title="picture" alt="picture" /> </div> i need to extract the src of this img tag ... i am using this code i am getting null value Element masthead2 = doc.select("div.picture").first(); String linkText = m...

jsoup tag extraction

how can extract the tag from this html <dt>test:</dt> <dd id="rating" class=""> +0 / -0 (0) </dd> <dt>up:</dt> <dd> GMT</dd> <dt>By:</dt> <dd> </dd> <dt>example:</dt> <dd>5</dd> <dt>file:</dt> <dd>8</dd> how can i extract the 5 and 8 in this html code using jsoup....please help me ...

jsoup tag extraction problem

Hello, <div style="height:240px;"> <br>test: example <br>test1:example1 </div> Elements size = doc.select("div:contains(test:)"); how can i extract the value example and example1 from this html tag....using jsoup.. ...

Do external libraries make apps slower?

I am building an app that scrapes information from web pages. To do that I have chosen to use an html scraper called Jsoup because it's so simple to use. Jsoup is also dependent on Apache Commons Lang libray. (Together they make up a total of 385kB ). So Jsoup will be used to Download the page and parse it. My question is if the use of ...

Which packages must be imported?

import java.io.*; import java.net.URL; import java.net.URLConnection; import java.sql.*; public class linksfind{ public static void main(){ String html = "http://www.apple.com/pr/"; Document document = Jsoup.parse(html); // Can also take an URL. for (Element element : document.getElementsByTag("a")) { System.out.pri...

To identify links regarding the Press Release pages alone

My task is to find the actual Press release links of a given link. Say http://www.apple.com/pr/ for example. My tool has to find the press release links alone from the above URL excluding other advertisement links, tab links(or whatever) that are found in that site. The program below is developed and the result t...

How to Parse Only Text from HTML

Hey Friends how can i parse only text from a web page using jsoup using java? ...

Convert HTML to plain text in Java

I need to convert HTML to plain text. My only requirement of formatting is to retain new lines in the plain text. New lines should be displayed not only in the case of < br > but other tags, eg. < tr/>, < /p> leads to a new line too. Sample HTML pages for testing are: "http://www.particle.kth.se/~lindsey/JavaCourse/Book/Part1/Java/Chap...

JSoup - Select all comments

Hey, I want to select all comments from a document using JSoup. I would like to do something like this: for(Element e : doc.select("comment")) { System.out.println(e); } I have tried this: for (Element e : doc.getAllElements()) { if (e instanceof Comment) { } } But the following error occurs in eclipse "Incompatible condi...