Swift parse html table

Question

I am trying to bring this info from a web page into an iOS app.

HTML Code:

Update as of 3:57:00 PM (CDT) Thu., Apr. 16, 2015

Production Line 1
9:00 minutes  (10 min) 
No delay

Production Line 2
7:57 minutes  (4 min) 
+3:57

Production Line 3
10:35 minutes  (8 min) 
+2:35

This is my current attempt at the code. I have marked the line that I think is the issue with // issue. I get just optional nil values. I am using Swift-HTML-Parser to help make this happen. I made only one change and that was to add a section for table.

import UIKit
extension String {
var html2String:String {
    return NSAttributedString(data: dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!, options: [NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute:NSHTMLTextDocumentType,NSCharacterEncodingDocumentAttribute:NSUTF8StringEncoding], documentAttributes: nil, error: nil)!.string
   }
}

class mainViewController: UIViewController {

@IBOutlet var textView: UITextView!


override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    updateTrafficInfo()

    let singleFingerTap = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: "handleSingleTap:")
    self.textView.addGestureRecognizer(singleFingerTap)
}

// MARK: gestutre recognizer
func handleSingleTap(recognizer: UITapGestureRecognizer) {
    updateTrafficInfo()
}

func updateTrafficInfo(){
    var request = HTTPTask()
    var err: NSError?
    request.GET("http://localhost/productiontimes.html", parameters: nil, success: {(response: HTTPResponse) in
        if let data = response.responseObject as? NSData {
            let rawHTML = NSString(data: data, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding) as! String
            let option = CInt(HTML_PARSE_NOERROR.value | HTML_PARSE_RECOVER.value)

            var parser = HTMLParser(html: rawHTML, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding, option: option, error: &err)
            if err != nil {
                println(err)
            }
            var bodyNode = parser.table
            if let inputNodes = bodyNode?.xpath("//tr") {
                for node in inputNodes {
                    dispatch_sync(dispatch_get_main_queue(), {
                    self.textView.text = node.xpath("//td")?[0].contents  //issue
                    println(node.xpath("//td")?[0].contents)
                    });
                }
            }


            dispatch_sync(dispatch_get_main_queue(), {
                self.textView.text = rawHTML.html2String


            });

        }
        },failure: {(error: NSError, response: HTTPResponse?) in
            println("error: \(error)")
    })
}



override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
    super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
    // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}


}

Goal would be to have the output in a format of something like this.

Production Line  -      Time  -                     Delay
Production Line 1 -     9:00 minutes  (10 min) -    No delay
Production Line 2 -     7:57 minutes  (4 min) -     +3:57

Leo Dabus · Accepted Answer

edit/update: Swift 4.x

extension Data {
    var html2AttributedString: NSAttributedString? {
        return try? NSAttributedString(data: self, options: [.documentType: NSAttributedString.DocumentType.html, .characterEncoding: String.Encoding.utf8.rawValue], documentAttributes: nil)

    }
    var html2String: String {
        return html2AttributedString?.string ?? ""
    }
}

let data = Data("""
Update as of 3:57:00 PM (CDT) Thu., Apr. 16, 2015

Production Line 1
9:00 minutes  (10 min) 
No delay

Production Line 2
7:57 minutes  (4 min) 
+3:57

Production Line 3
10:35 minutes  (8 min) 
+2:35
Update as of 3:57:00 PM (CDT) Thu., Apr. 16, 2015

Production Line 1
9:00 minutes  (10 min) 
No delay

Production Line 2
7:57 minutes  (4 min) 
+3:57

Production Line 3
10:35 minutes  (8 min) 
+2:35

""".utf8)

let output = data.html2String
let components = output.components(separatedBy: .newlines)
for index in stride(from: 1, to: 9, by: 3) {
    let line = components[index]
    let time = components[index+1]
    let delay = components[index+2]
    print( line + " - " + time + " - " + delay )
}

Swift parse html table

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