Question

I’m trying to parse online dictionary results using Jsoup, of which I have a basic understanding. I posted the HTML I’m trying to parse. I’m trying to grab the strings “baseball” and “beisebol”, but I’m lacking a clean way of doing this.

Answer 1

It’s a bit difficult, because neither the words have unique identifier in source code.

But I would do it like that:

Document doc = Jsoup.connect("http://myurl.com").get();
String original = doc.select("td[width=140]").get(1).toString() //get td element which has width of 140 and get the second one
String translated = doc.select("td[align=left]").get(1).toString()//get td element which has align left and get the second one

Note: When accessing data by scraping, a small change in website design/source code could brake your application.