Question

            <div class="username_container">

                    <div id="yui-gen11" class="popupmenu memberaction">
<a id="yui-gen13" class="username offline popupctrl" href="member.php?u=276113" title="PilotPhill is offline"><strong>**PilotPhill**</strong></a>
<ul id="yui-gen12" class="popupbody memberaction_body">

    <li class="left">

I am trying to extract the author names of a forum thread using jsoup. It is the name inside the strong tags. I have tried close to everything and just can’t get it.
Any tips? I’ve been using jSoup.select() but if there are other methods, I’d be happy to try.

Answer 1

You just have to use Document.select as you already found out.

Document doc = Jsoup.connect("http://www.foo.com").get();
Elements usernames = doc.select("a.username strong");
for (Element username: usernames) {
    System.out.println("found username: " + username.text();
}

a.username strong means: tags strong inside tag a with attribute class having the value username as in :

<a id="yui-gen13" class="username offline popupctrl" 
    href="member.php?u=276113" title="PilotPhill is offline">
    <strong>**PilotPhill**</strong>
</a>