Question

I have got a PHP/HTML page where I want to fetch data from but after submitting a form.

Like:

1. Open site
2. Input this content
3. Sumbit
4. Parse the NEW site for content

What is the fastest way to achieve this?

I began with webview – too much not needed stuff, so I changed to org.apache.http and that seemed okay.

Here is a part of my code:

HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
    HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost("WEBSITE NAME");
    List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
    nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("THE NAME OF THE SEARCH B OX", "WORD I WANT TO BE PUT IN"));


        httpPost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));

        HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpPost);

        HttpEntity httpEntity = response.getEntity();


        String sourceCode = EntityUtils.toString(httpEntity);

So at the end the httpEntity has got the HTML – and then I’m stuck. Is there any way how to PARSE it to get for example – find a table and get the second row’s second cell’s content?

Answer 1

http://www.androidsnippets.com/executing-a-http-post-request-with-httpclient