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I’m relatively new to using jsoup, and I can’t seem to find the correct query to parse out the value I’m looking for. The HTML is as follows.

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I need to parse out birdman from there. I know that once I’ve defined the element, I can get “birdman” out with author.text();, but I cant figure out how to define the author element. I thought perhaps the following block of code would work, but as I mentioned, I’m pretty new to jsoup and html and it obviously didnt work. Theres nothing wrong with the connection, and jsoup is working for the other values I parsed out.

            TitleResults titleArray =  new TitleResults();
                Document doc = null;
                try {
                    doc = Jsoup.connect(Constants.FORUM).get();
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
                Elements threads = doc.select(".topic_title");
                for (Element thread : threads) {
                    titleArray =  new TitleResults();
                    //Thread title
                    threadTitle = thread.text();
                    titleArray.setItemName(threadTitle);

                    //Thread link
                    String threadStr = thread.attr("abs:href");
                    String endTag = "/page__view__getnewpost"; //trim link
                    threadStr = new String(threadStr.replace(endTag, ""));
                    threadArray.add(threadStr);

                    titleArray.setAuthorDate("Author/Date");
                    results.add(titleArray);
                }
                Elements authors = doc.select("a[hovercard-ref]");
                for (Element author : authors) {
                    if (author.attr("abs:href").contains("/user/")){
                        Log.d("POC", "SUCCESS " + author.attr("abs:href"));
                    } else {
                        Log.d("POC", "FAILURE " + author.text());                           
                    }
                }
        } 

Answer 1

I think you’re thinking too hard 😉

To get the birdman portion of the link, just use the following:

Elements authors = doc.select("a");
for (Element author : authors) {
    Log.d("POC", author.text());
}

The "a" retrieves all links. After that you can just use the .text() like you said to retrieve the value.