Get text without tags from web page using Jsoup

Question

I have to extract some data from a web page using Jsoup.

I have easily extracted the data contained in tags, but I still need some data which is not tagged.

This is an example of the HTML source :

<a id="aId" href="aLink" style="aStyle">
    <span id="spanId1">
        <b>Caldan Therapeutics</b> 
        Announces Key Appointments And A Collaboration With 
        <b>Sygnature Discovery</b>  
    </span>
    <span id="spanId2" style="spanStyle2">
        5/17/2016
    </span>
</a>

I have already extracted the data contained in <b> tags as well as the date but what I want now is to extract the sentence Announces Key Appointments And A Collaboration With.

As you can see, this sentence has no tags.

What can I do to extract it ?

I have already done my research and all I could find was how to strip all the tags out.

Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

I found an anwser to that specific need and I would like to share it with anyone who might face the same issue in the future.

All you can do is use the function ownText(), it exclueds the text from the element's children tags.

In our example :

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    Document doc = Jsoup.connect("http://source-url").get();
    Elements spanTags = doc.getElementsByTag("span");
    for (Element spanTag : spanTags) {
        String text = spanTag.ownText();
        System.out.println(text);
    }
}