android: parse html from page

Question

i would like to parse out some text from a page.

Is there an easy way to save the product info in to a string for example? Example url: http://upcdata.info/upc/7310870008741

Thanks

Answer 1

Jsoup is excellent at parsing simple HTML from Android applications:

http://jsoup.org/

To get the page, just do this:

URL url = new URL("http://upcdata.info/upc/7310870008741");
Document document = Jsoup.parse(url, 5000);

Then you can parse out whatever you need from the Document. Check out this link for a brief description of how to extract parts of the page:

http://jsoup.org/cookbook/extracting-data/dom-navigation