jsoup - Extracting Text

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Overview

Element object represent a dom elment and provides various method to get the text of a dom element.

Syntax

Document document = Jsoup.parse(html);
Element link = document.select("a").first();
System.out.println("Text: " + link.text());

Where

document − document object represents the HTML DOM.
Jsoup − main class to parse the given HTML String.
html − HTML string
link − Element object represent the html node element representing anchor tag.
link.text() − text() method retrives the element text.

Example - Selecting Hyperlinks title

JsoupTester.java

package com.tutorialspoint;

import org.jsoup.Jsoup;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Document;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Element;
import org.jsoup.select.Elements;

public class JsoupTester {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
   
      String html = "<html><head><title>Sample Title</title></head>"
         + "<body>"
         + "<p>Sample Content</p>"
         + "<div id='sampleDiv'><a href='www.google.com'>Google</a>"
         + "<h3><a>Sample</a><h3>"
         +"</div>"
         + "<div id='imageDiv' class='header'><img name='google' src='google.png' />"
         + "<img name='yahoo' src='yahoo.jpg' />"
         +"</div>"
         +"</body></html>";
      Document document = Jsoup.parse(html);

      //a with href
      Elements links = document.select("a[href]");

      for (Element link : links) {
         System.out.println("Title: " + link.text());
      }
   }
}

Verify the result

Compile and run the JsoupTester to verify the result −

Title: Google

Example - Getting Text of Divs

JsoupTester.java

package com.tutorialspoint;

import org.jsoup.Jsoup;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Document;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Element;
import org.jsoup.select.Elements;

public class JsoupTester {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
   
      String html = "<html><head><title>Sample Title</title></head>"
         + "<body>"
         + "<p>Sample Content</p>"
         + "<div id='sampleDiv'><a href='www.google.com'>Google</a>"
         + "<h3><a>Sample</a><h3>"
         +"</div>"
         + "<div id='imageDiv' class='header'><img name='google' src='google.png' />"
         + "<img name='yahoo' src='yahoo.jpg' />"
         +"</div>"
         +"</body></html>";
      Document document = Jsoup.parse(html);

      // select div
      Elements divs = document.select("div");

      for (Element div : divs) {
         System.out.println(div.text());
      }
   }
}

Verify the result

Compile and run the JsoupTester to verify the result −

Google Sample

Example - Selecting text of paragraph

JsoupTester.java

package com.tutorialspoint;

import org.jsoup.Jsoup;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Document;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Element;
import org.jsoup.select.Elements;

public class JsoupTester {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
   
      String html = "<html><head><title>Sample Title</title></head>"
         + "<body>"
         + "<p>Sample Content</p>"
         + "<div id='sampleDiv'><a href='www.google.com'>Google</a>"
         + "<h3><a>Sample</a><h3>"
         +"</div>"
         + "<div id='imageDiv' class='header'><img key='google1' name='google' src='google.png' />"
         + "<img key='yahoo1' name='yahoo' src='yahoo.jpg' />"
         +"</div>"
         +"</body></html>";
      Document document = Jsoup.parse(html);

      // select paragraph
      Elements paragraphs = document.select("p");

      for (Element paragraph : paragraphs) {
         System.out.println("Text: " + paragraph.text());
      }
   }
}

Verify the result

Compile and run the JsoupTester to verify the result −

Text: Sample Content

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