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Asked: 2026-05-21T20:15:56+00:00

I am beginning a new project, its something I have never attempted with in

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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:

  • Search a website and get
    corresponding data (Basically search
    its search engine based of the query
    that a user inputs, then returns the
    corresponding results)

  • The user clicks on one of the results
    and then program will show certain
    values (the values will be on the
    result’s webpage)

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

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  1. Editorial Team

    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

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