Thread: getting text from url?

hi is there a way to grab all text fom a url with jsoup i have seen code for extracting specific info like links and heaings and stuff but is there a way to grab all text from a url as if you copyied and pasted the site into a text.doc ? i cant find much info on it at all thsnks.

I don't know jsoup, but I would guess not. When you paste stuff from a web page into MS Word that program takes the contents of the page and parses it (to find paragraph breaks, table rows etc), downloads stuff (images for example), does a whole lot of layout and finally represents the resulting information in the appropriate format for .doc documents. I find it unlikely that jsoup would provide all this functionality for this particular (and outdated) format.

Originally Posted by pbrockway2

I don't know jsoup, but I would guess not. When you paste stuff from a web page into MS Word that program takes the contents of the page and parses it (to find paragraph breaks, table rows etc), downloads stuff (images for example), does a whole lot of layout and finally represents the resulting information in the appropriate format for .doc documents. I find it unlikely that jsoup would provide all this functionality for this particular (and outdated) format.

any sugestions on how it could be done?