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Parsing a specific text value with JSoup

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Hey does anyone know how to parse the "Light rain", " 7°C", and "Limited"? These are stored as #text so that's kind of throwing me off. For reference, to parse "Temperature:", it would be Element element5 = doc.select("strong").get(3); Thanks!

Solution

  • The nodes from your example are called text nodes. In Jsoup, you can read the text nodes of a node by using the text() method. So given your example using Jsoup we'd select the td element and then use text() to get it's text value.

    However, this would also output the text value from any child nodes, so in your case this would produce Weather: Light rain as a single string. Fortunately, Jsoup also has a ownText() method that only extracts the value from the text nodes that are a direct descendant of the element (and not all children). So given your example code, you could write it like this:

    Element element5 = doc.select("td").get(3);
String value = element5.ownText()