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I’m just getting started with HTTPClient, and I want to take a webpage and extract out the raw text from it minus all the html markup.
Can HTTPClient accomplish that? If so, how? Or is there another library I should be looking at?
for example if the page contains
<body><p>para1 test info</p><div><p>more stuff here</p></div>
I’d like it to output
para1 test info more stuff here
I’d suggest using HttpComponents Client (HTTPClient 4) (instead of version 3 you’ve linked to).
This being said, it’s independent of the HTTP client library (there are others). What you need is to convert the HTML into plain text. This could be of interest: http://www.rgagnon.com/javadetails/java-0424.html