Question

Is it possible to extract text from URLs with Tika? Any links will be appreciated. Or TIKA is usable only for pdf, word and any other media documents?

Answer 1

This is from lucid:

InputStream input = new FileInputStream(new File(resourceLocation));
ContentHandler textHandler = new BodyContentHandler();
Metadata metadata = new Metadata();
PDFParser parser = new PDFParser();
parser.parse(input, textHandler, metadata);
input.close();
out.println("Title: " + metadata.get("title"));
out.println("Author: " + metadata.get("Author"));
out.println("content: " + textHandler.toString());

Instead of creating a PDFParser you can use Tika’s AutoDetectParser to automatically process diff types of files:

Parser parser = new AutoDetectParser();