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I am familier with java programming language I like to extract the data from a website and store it to my database running on my machine.Is that possible in java.If so which API I should use. For example the are number of schools listed on a website How can I extract that data and store it to my database using java.
What you’re referring to is commonly called ‘screenscraping’. There are a variety of ways to do this in Java, however, I prefer HtmlUnit. While it was designed as a way to test web functionality, you can use it to hit a remote webpage, and parse it out.
I would recommend using a good error handling html parser like Tagsoup to extract from the HTML exactly what you’re looking for.