Parsing HTML in web crawler

Question

Further to my earlier question here: Extending a basic web crawler to filter status codes and HTML , I'm trying to extract information from HTML tags, in this case "title", with the following method:

public static void parsePage() throws IOException, BadLocationException 
{
    HTMLEditorKit kit = new HTMLEditorKit();
    HTMLDocument doc = (HTMLDocument) kit.createDefaultDocument();
    doc.putProperty("IgnoreCharsetDirective", Boolean.TRUE);
    Reader HTMLReader = new InputStreamReader(testURL.openConnection()
            .getInputStream());
    kit.read(HTMLReader, doc, 0);

    // Create an iterator for all HTML tags.
    ElementIterator it = new ElementIterator(doc);
    Element elem;

    while ((elem = it.next()) != null) 
    {
        if (elem.getName().equals("title")) 
        {
            System.out.println("found title tag");
        }
    }
}

This is working as far as telling me it's found the tags. What I'm struggling with is how to extract the information contained after/within them.

I found this question on the site: Help with Java Swing HTML parsing , however it states it will only work with well-formed HTML. I was hoping there is another way.

Any pointers appreciated.

Answer 1

Turns out changing the method to this produces the desired result:

    {
            HTMLEditorKit kit = new HTMLEditorKit();
            HTMLDocument doc = (HTMLDocument) kit.createDefaultDocument();
            doc.putProperty("IgnoreCharsetDirective", Boolean.TRUE);
            Reader HTMLReader = new InputStreamReader(testURL.openConnection().getInputStream());
            kit.read(HTMLReader, doc, 0);
            String title = (String) doc.getProperty(Document.TitleProperty);
            System.out.println(title);
    }

I think I was off on a wild goose chase with iterator/element stuff.

Answer 2

Try using Jodd

Jerry jerry = jerry().enableHtmlMode().parse(html);
...

Or HtmlParser

Parser parser = new Parser(htmlInput);
CssSelectorNodeFilter cssFilter = new CssSelectorNodeFilter("title");
NodeList nodes = parser.parse(cssFilter);