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batussi
batussi

Reputation: 55

How to parse Aria-Label from a div tag attribute?

I am using JSoup to parse some HTMLL information, and I would like to parse the aria label value of a specific div attribute. The line I am trying to parse is the following:

<div class="tiny-star star-rating-non-editable-container" aria-label=" Rated   5 stars out of five stars ">

I have used the following:

Document document = Jsoup.connect(url).get();
Elements stars= document.select("div.tiny-star star-rating-non-editable-container[aria-label]");
String value = stars.text();
System.out.println("The rating is " + value);

However, the String value, returns blank. Why is this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1732

Answers (1)

Ian Roberts
Ian Roberts

Reputation: 122394

That selector expression won't give you what you expect. It's treated as a two-part selector

  • div.tiny-star - find a div element with class tiny-star
  • star-rating-non-editable-container[aria-label] - then look for a descendant star-rating-non-editable-container element which has an aria-label attribute

Try something more like

Element divWithStars = document.select(
   "div.tiny-star.star-rating-non-editable-container[aria-label]");
String ariaLabel = divWithStars.attr("aria-label");

Note the dot rather than space between tiny-star and star-rating-..., and also the fact that select returns the element that hosts the aria-label attribute, not the attribute itself - you have to use attr to extract the attribute value.

Upvotes: 1

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