Apache Tika - Extracting HTML Document

Example - Extracting Content and Metadata from a HTML Document

Given below is the program to extract content and metadata from a HTML Document.

TikaDemo.java

package com.tutorialspoint.tika;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.tika.exception.TikaException;
import org.apache.tika.metadata.Metadata;
import org.apache.tika.parser.AutoDetectParser;
import org.apache.tika.parser.ParseContext;
import org.apache.tika.sax.BodyContentHandler;

import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

public class TikaDemo {

   public static void main(final String[] args) throws IOException,SAXException, TikaException {

      //detecting the file type
      BodyContentHandler handler = new BodyContentHandler();
      Metadata metadata = new Metadata();
      FileInputStream inputstream = new FileInputStream(new File("D:/projects/example.html"));
      ParseContext pcontext = new ParseContext();
      
      //Html parser 
      AutoDetectParser htmlparser = new AutoDetectParser();
      htmlparser.parse(inputstream, handler, metadata,pcontext);
      System.out.println("Contents of the document:" + handler.toString());
      System.out.println("Metadata of the document:");
      String[] metadataNames = metadata.names();
      
      for(String name : metadataNames) {
         System.out.println(name + ":   " + metadata.get(name));  
      }
   }
}

Output

Given below is the snapshot of example.html file.

The HTML document has the following properties −

After executing the above program you will get the following output.

Contents of the document:

	Name	Salary	Age

	Ramesh	50000	20

	Shabbir	70000	25

	Umesh	50000	30

Metadata of the document:
X-TIKA:Parsed-By:   org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser
dc:title:   HTML Table Header
X-TIKA:Parsed-By-Full-Set:   org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser
Content-Encoding:   windows-1252
X-TIKA:detectedEncoding:   windows-1252
X-TIKA:encodingDetector:   UniversalEncodingDetector
Content-Type:   text/html; charset=windows-1252