I was able to scrape what you were looking for from this page on that same site. Even if it’s not what you want, the procedure may help someone in the future. Here is how I did that: First I opened that page Then I opened the Chrome developer tools by pressing CTRL+ SHIFT+i or … Read more
You want to use FormElement. This is a useful feature of Jsoup. It is able to find the fields declared inside a form and post them for you. Before posting the form you can set the value of the fields using Jsoup API. Nota: In the sample codes below, you’ll always see calls to the … Read more
JSoup has some basic connection handling included, but it is not a web browser. It excels at parsing static html content. It does not run any javascript, so you are out of luck. However, there are different options that you might follow: You can analyze the page that you want to retrieve and find out … Read more
Assuming that the HTML form look like below: <form action=”http://example.com/login” method=”post”> <input type=”text” name=”username” /> <input type=”password” name=”password” /> <input type=”submit” name=”login” value=”Login” /> </form> You can POST it and obtain cookies as below: Response response = Jsoup.connect(“http://example.com/login”) .method(Method.POST) .data(“username”, username) .data(“password”, password) .data(“login”, “Login”) .execute(); Map<String, String> cookies = response.cookies(); Document document = response.parse(); … Read more
With HTTP basic access authentication you need to send the Authorization header along with a value of “Basic ” + base64encode(“username:password”). E.g. String username = “foo”; String password = “bar”; String login = username + “:” + password; String base64login = Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(login.getBytes()); Document document = Jsoup .connect(“http://example.com”) .header(“Authorization”, “Basic ” + base64login) .get(); // … … Read more
Jsoup is a html parser only. Unfortunately it’s not possible to parse any javascript / ajax content, since jsoup can’t execute those. The solution: using a library which can handle Scripts. Here are some examples i know: HtmlUnit Java Script Engine Apache Commons BSF Rhino If such a library doesn’t support parsing or selectors, you … Read more
Since jsoup isn’t a javascript library you have two ways to solve this: A. Use a javascript library Pro: Full Javascript support Con: Additional libraray / dependencies B. Use Jsoup + manual parsing Pro: No extra libraries required Enough for simple tasks Con: Not as flexible as a javascript library Here’s an example how to … Read more
I know I’m kinda late by 10 months here. But a good option using Jsoup is to use this easy peasy piece of code: //This will get you the response. Response res = Jsoup .connect(“url”) .data(“loginField”, “login@login.com”, “passField”, “pass1234”) .method(Method.POST) .execute(); //This will get you cookies Map<String, String> cookies = res.cookies(); //And this is the … Read more
It seems the latest version of Jsoup (1.6.2 – released March 28, 2012) includes some basic support for XML. String html = “<?xml version=\”1.0\” encoding=\”UTF-8\”><tests><test><id>xxx</id><status>xxx</status></test><test><id>xxx</id><status>xxx</status></test></tests></xml>”; Document doc = Jsoup.parse(html, “”, Parser.xmlParser()); for (Element e : doc.select(“test”)) { System.out.println(e); } Give that a shot..
You might try setting the referrer header as well: doc = Jsoup.connect(“https://www.facebook.com/”) .userAgent(“Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WindowsNT 5.1; en-US; rv1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6”) .referrer(“http://www.google.com”) .get();