Question

I currently have the following section of HTML code from a web page:

<td class="movieclass">
<b>Cinema 1</b>
    10.30 AM. + 12.45 + 3.00 + 5.15 + 7.30 + 9.45 + 12.00 MN.
<br />

<b>Cinema 2</b>
    3.00 + 5.15 + 7.30 + 9.45 + (12.00 MN. THRS./FRI.)
<br />

<b>Cinema 3</b>
    2.30 + 4.45 + 7.00 + 9.15  + (12.15 PM. + 11.30 PM. THRS./FRI.)
<br />

<b>Cinema 4</b>
    11.30 AM. + 2.00 + 4.30 + 7.00 + 9.30 + 12.00 MN.
<br />

<b>Cinema 5</b>
    10.30 AM. + 1.00 + 3.30 + 6.00 + 8.30 + 11.00 PM.
<br />
</td>

I’m trying to use jsoup to try and extract the time, but for a specific cinema. I’m assuming if the times lines were within paragraphs (p tags) I could use the following for extracting:

Elements movieTime = doc.select("a:contains(Cinema 3) + p");

However, in the code above the lines with times have no tags around them. Is there a way of extracting the times line for a certain cinema?

Answer 1

I decided to create a jsoup document with the HTML of the page:

String doc = Jsoup.connect("http://www.example.com").get().html();

Then did some string replacement on the document:

doc = doc.replaceAll("<b>","<p>");
doc = doc.replaceAll("</b>","</p><p>");

The replacing seems a bit extreme since it is going through the whole document, but I just need some tags around the section I needed to extract. Finally the extraction:

Document newDoc = Jsoup.parse(doc);
String movieTimes = newDoc.select("p:contains(Cinema 2) + p").text();
System.out.println(movieTimes); //Should print only text within <p> after Cinema 2