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Skylion
Skylion

Reputation: 2752

JSoup URL linking struggling

I cannot get the hyperlink from this element. I have tried element.attr("href") and element.abs("href") to no avail. Here is what I am trying to extract:

 <p ><strong>Previous Chapter:</strong> <a href="http://www.mangahere.com/manga/mirai_nikki/v07/c031/">Mirai Nikki 31</a>

I want the URL from that source, but I cannot get it working.

Here is the code I have so far:

Document doc;
try{
    doc = Jsoup.connect(currentURL).get();
    Element e = doc.getElementsByClass("reader_tip").first().children().last().children().first();
    System.out.println(e.text());
    String backPage = e.attr("href");

    loadPage(backPage);
}
catch(Exception ex){
    ex.printStackTrace();
}

and the URL in question:

http://www.mangahere.com/manga/mirai_nikki/v07/c032/

It's probably something so simple I am overlooking it. If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 83

Answers (1)

Jonathan Hedley
Jonathan Hedley

Reputation: 10522

You can simplify your selector to p:contains(Previous Chapter) a, which looks for A tags that are inside P tags which contain the text "Previous Chapter".

Full example:

String url = "http://www.mangahere.com/manga/mirai_nikki/v07/c032/";
String ua = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_2) AppleWebKit/537.33 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1438.7 Safari/537.33";

Document doc = Jsoup.connect(url).userAgent(ua).timeout(10 * 1000).get();
Element a = doc.select("p:contains(Previous Chapter) a").first();
String backUrl = a.attr("href");

System.out.println(String.format("Back URL: %s (%s)", backUrl, a.text()));

Prints:

Back URL: http://www.mangahere.com/manga/mirai_nikki/v07/c031/ (Mirai Nikki 31)

Please see Try jsoup and the jsoup select syntax documentation.

Upvotes: 1

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