How to get the HTML source of a page from a HTML link in Android?

Question

I'm working on an application that needs to get the source of a web page from a link, and then parse the html from that page.

Could you give me some examples, or starting points where to look to start writing such an app?

Answer 1

You can use HttpClient to perform an HTTP GET and retrieve the HTML response, something like this:

HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient(); HttpGet request = new HttpGet(url); HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);  String html = ""; InputStream in = response.getEntity().getContent(); BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in)); StringBuilder str = new StringBuilder(); String line = null; while((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {     str.append(line); } in.close(); html = str.toString();