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Brandon
Brandon

Reputation: 703

Java - Get text from webpage

I am beginning a new project, its something I have never attempted with in Java, and I have been researching before hand. My research has not got me much further than where I started.

Basically my project will do this:

So far all I kind of know on how to do this is Web Scraping. I couldn't find any examples so I am still kind of in the dark about this.

Is this really possible? I will be using Java with the Android SDK. I kind of have a idea, but my Java knowledge does not contain anything to do with Web Pages, etc.

Thanks in advanced, Brandon

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1036

Answers (2)

mkoryak
mkoryak

Reputation: 57918

Nutch is a great tool, but may be a bit overkill for a small project. if you are looking for something really quick and dirty and easy to understand you should look into crawler

see an example of use here: http://java.net/projects/crawler/sources/svn/content/trunk/src/examples/com/torunski/crawler/examples/ExampleDownloadWithHTMLParser.java?rev=429

You can probably drop this into your project and be scraping in 10 mins

Upvotes: 1

billygoat
billygoat

Reputation: 21984

Of course it is possible. Probably the best library for this is Apache Nutch. Its based on powerful library stacks like Lucene and is very matured. Look in to their tutorials and you might find all the necessary information for a quick poc.

Upvotes: 0

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