Question

I’ve got 5-line, simple Jsoup code parsing some strings, it smoothly runs and returns an array list with values that i want, however on android emulator and phone, it just returns nothing without even giving an error.

Thats the whole code :

Document doc = Jsoup.connect(myURL).get();
Elements els = doc.select("div font a");
for (int i = 3; i < els.size(); i++) {
    latestNews.add(els.get(i).text());
}

On desktop, it adds elements into array list, however on device, nothing occurs. Could anyone help about it ?

Answer 1

Are you sure you are receiving the same HTML from the site? you should debug and check your doc variable to make sure it contains the same HTML as you’d expect on the site. Possible case of grabbing the mobile site when you are parsing the full site? (not sure if Jsoup prevents getting the mobile site or not). You likely need to set the user agent so that you receive the full desktop variant of the website.

ex.

Document doc = Jsoup.connect(myURL).userAgent("Mozilla").get();