Question

I’d like to load a web page and parse the article text and title only, then display this in a view. Is it possible to do this without using UIWebVIew? If its possible, I’d prefer to use only built in functions and no plugins.
Thank you.

Answer 1

You can create a HTTP reqest to get the html content string, then parse the string.
For example, to get the title of html:

NSError *error = nil;
NSString *html = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.google.com"] encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding error:&error];
if(html) {
    NSLog(@"HTML %@", html);

    NSRange r = [html rangeOfString:@"<title>"];
    if (r.location != NSNotFound) {
        NSRange r1 = [html rangeOfString:@"</title>"];
        if (r1.location != NSNotFound) {
            if (r1.location > r.location) {
                NSString *title = [html substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(NSMaxRange(r), r1.location - NSMaxRange(r))];
                NSLog(@"title %@", title);
            }
        }
    }
} else {
    NSLog(@"Error %@", error);
}