Question

What are some tips one can keep in mind to speed up jSoup? I am pretty new to using jSoup and any advice about things I should do, things I should avoid, etc. would be most appreciated.

I just want to know some general things so that I won’t slow down my own software.

For example, what is faster:

doc.select("[class=foo]:eq(0)").first()

or

doc.select("[class=foo]").first()

or

doc.select("[class=foo]:lt(1)").first()

Stuff like that.

Answer 1

You may want to try this tip (taken from here):

not great

for (Element link : links)

better

int i;
Element tempLink;
for (i=0;i<links.size();i++) {
   tempLink = links.get(i);
}