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I'm using jsoup to scrape some HTML data and it's working out great. Now I need to pull some JSON content (only JSON, not HTML). Can I do this easily with jsoup or do I have to do it using another method? The parsing that jsoup performs is encoding the JSON data so it's not parsing properly with Gson.
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You just have to use json_decode() function to convert JSON objects to the appropriate PHP data type. Example: By default the json_decode() function returns an object. You can optionally specify a second parameter that accepts a boolean value. When it is set as “true”, JSON objects are decoded into associative arrays.
Instead of the JSON loads method, which reads JSON strings, the method used to read JSON data in files is load(). The load() method takes up a file object and returns the JSON data parsed into a Python object. To get the file object from a file path, Python's open() function can be used.
While great, Jsoup is a HTML parser, not a JSON parser, so it is useless in this context. If you ever attempt it, Jsoup will put the returned JSON implicitly in a <html><head> and so on. You don't want to have that. Gson is a JSON parser, so you definitely need it.
Your concrete problem is likely that you don't know how to feed an URL returning a JSON to Gson. In that case, you need to use URL#openStream() to get an InputStream of it and use InputStreamReader to decorate it into a Reader which finally can be fed to Gson#fromJson() which accepts a Reader.
InputStream input = new URL("http://example.com/foo.json").openStream();
Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(input, "UTF-8");
Data data = new Gson().fromJson(reader, Data.class);
// ...
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