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Spidersaw
Spidersaw

Reputation: 354

Getting string from webpage in Android

Is possible get a String from a webpage in Android? I can see several ways to take all the html content, but is there a way to get ONLY an element? Thanks in advance.

Solved with jsoup by executing this from onCreateView method:

private class Take extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void> {
        String desc;

        @Override
        protected void onPreExecute() {
            super.onPreExecute();
        }

        @Override
        protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) {
            try {
                Document document = Jsoup.connect(url).get();
                Element link = document.select("h2").first();
                String text = document.body().text();
                String linkText = link.text();   
                Log.d(linkText, linkText);
                Log.d(text, text);
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            return null;
        }

        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {

        }
    }

Upvotes: 0

Views: 141

Answers (1)

Aniruddha K.M
Aniruddha K.M

Reputation: 7511

yes its possible you have to use a library called jsoup, read more about it here http://jsoup.org/

here's an example

File input = new File("/tmp/input.html");
Document doc = Jsoup.parse(input, "UTF-8", "http://example.com/");

Element content = doc.getElementById("content");
Elements links = content.getElementsByTag("a");
for (Element link : links) {
  String linkHref = link.attr("href");
  String linkText = link.text();
}

Upvotes: 1

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