Get Text from Web Page to String

Extract the text out of HTML string using JavaScript

Create an element, store the HTML in it, and get its textContent:

function extractContent(s) {

  var span = document.createElement('span');

  span.innerHTML = s;

  return span.textContent || span.innerText;

};

    

alert(extractContent("<p>Hello</p><a href='http://w3c.org'>W3C</a>"));

Copy web-page content to a string

Yes there is a method to do this without using Internet Explorer, you can use a web request.

Here is a sample method. Basically, you are emulating the communication that would normally take place between a browser and server.

Option Explicit

Public Function getPageText(url As String)
    With CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")
        .Open "GET", url
        .send
        getPageText = .responseText
    End With
End Function

Sub Example()
    Dim url As String: url = "http://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pvgis5/PVcalc.php?lat=45&lon=8&peakpower=1&loss=14&optimalangles=1&outputformat=basic"
    Debug.Print getPageText(url)
End Sub

Get text from web page to string

Use This:

public class ReadWebpageAsyncTask extends Activity {
    private TextView textView;

    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.TextView01);
    }

    private class DownloadWebPageTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String> {
        @Override
        protected String doInBackground(String... urls) {
            String response = "";
            for (String url : urls) {
                DefaultHttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
                HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(url);
                try {
                    HttpResponse execute = client.execute(httpGet);
                    InputStream content = execute.getEntity().getContent();

                    BufferedReader buffer = new BufferedReader(
                            new InputStreamReader(content));
                    String s = "";
                    while ((s = buffer.readLine()) != null) {
                        response += s;
                    }

                } catch (Exception e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
            return response;
        }

        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
            textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(result));
        }
    }

    public void readWebpage(View view) {
        DownloadWebPageTask task = new DownloadWebPageTask();
        task.execute(new String[] { "http://www.google.com" });

    }
}

main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    >

    <Button android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:id="@+id/readWebpage" android:onClick="readWebpage" android:text="Load Webpage"></Button>
    <TextView android:id="@+id/TextView01" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:text="Example Text"></TextView>
</LinearLayout>

How to get text out of Website into String

You can use jsoup library for your purpose; a simple example to read paragraphs from the rendered HTML on the website below:

 try {
            Document doc = Jsoup.connect("http://popofibo.com/pop/swaying-views-of-our-past/").get();
            Elements paragraphs = doc.select("p");
            for(Element p : paragraphs) {
              System.out.println(p.text());
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

Output:

It is indeed difficult to argue over the mainstream ideas of evolution
of human civilizations...

EDIT:

To demo with you HTML as a static content, you can easily use the id of your div tag:

public static void main(String... args) {
        Document doc = Jsoup
                .parse("<html><body><div class=\"text\" id=\"editorText\" itemprop=\"text\">I want to get this Text</div></body></html>");
        Elements divs = doc.select("div#editorText");
        for (Element d : divs) {
            System.out.println(d.text());
        }
    }

Output:

I want to get this Text

Get all text as a string from page

i have used .trim() and codepen URL for reference -http://codepen.io/nagasai/pen/jrPpeK

    <html>
        <head>
            <h1>wtf</h1>
        </head>
        <body>
            <div>dddiiiv</div>
            <a>aaaaa</a>
            <p>ppp</p>
            <div>div</div>
            <div id="impar"></div>
            <div id="par"></div>
            <div id="all"></div>

        </body>
    </html>

Javascript

    var elems = document.body.innerText;
                var odd = "";
                var even = "";
                var all = "";
                for (k in elems){
                    all = all + elems[k];
                    if (k % 2 === 0) {
                        even = (even + elems[k]).trim();
                    } else {
                        odd = (odd + elems[k]).trim();
                    }
                }


                console.log(all);
                console.log(odd);
                console.log(even);

Hope this is helpful

Get text from Web page

You could convert the html page to a sting. and use regex / string operations to obtain the needed data

try {
                if(!url_text.getText().toString().trim().equalsIgnoreCase("")){
                    textView.setText("");
                    HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
                    HttpGet request = new HttpGet(url_text.getText().toString());
                    // Get the response
                    ResponseHandler<String> responseHandler = new BasicResponseHandler();
                    String response_str = client.execute(request, responseHandler);
                    textView.setText(response_str);
                }else{
                    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "URL String empty.", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                }
            }
            catch (Exception e) {
                System.out.println("Some error occured.");
                textView.setText(e.getMessage());
            }

maybe the easiest way is to use sting.split function

String[] separated = response_str.split("**");
separated[0]; // part before the **
separated[1]; // your needed ip string
separated[2]; // part after the second **

How to extract text from html String

<script>

    function stripHtml(html) {
        var textarea = document.createElement("textarea");
        textarea.innerHTML = html;
        var temporalDivElement = document.createElement("p");
        temporalDivElement.innerHTML = textarea.value;
        return temporalDivElement.textContent || temporalDivElement.innerText || "";
    }




    var htmlString = `<div data-content-type="html" data-appearance="default " data-element="main"><p>The Angelina Tank Dress is simple yet sophisticated. This dress can be thrown over a swimsuit for last minute lunch plans or belted for dinner on the patio. The high-low hemline gives it the perfect amount of swing. </p><p>Features:</p><ul><li>Scoopneck</li><li>Sleeveless</li><li>Hits below the knee</li><li>Longer back hemline</li><li>Machine wash, tumble dry low</li></ul></div>`;

    console.log(stripHtml(htmlString));
</script>

How to extract text from a WebPage

@Ethan, sure, I hope this is what you want, just adding the readWebpage method in the onCreate method, but I modified it and removed the View object since it is not being used,

    public class Searching_Animation_Screen extends ActionBarActivity {
TextView loading_txt;
Animation blink;
public String pre_split;
public String[] split_string;
TextView text;


@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_searchinganimationscreen);
    ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
    actionBar.hide();
    int width = getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getWidth();
    loading_txt = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.loading);
    text =(TextView)findViewById(R.id.textView);
    Typeface pacifico_typeface = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "fonts/pacifico.ttf");
   loading_txt.setTypeface(pacifico_typeface);
   loading_txt.setTextSize(width / 20);
   blink = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(getApplicationContext(),
           R.anim.blink);
   loading_txt.setAnimation(blink);
   Begin();

  //* call webpage here, 
  //* note, i removed passing the view object since it is not being used
  readWebpage()

}

 //* (modify) by remvoving it from the code below 
 //* and removing the view object since it is not being used
 public void readWebpage() {
     DownloadWebPageTask task = new DownloadWebPageTask();
     task.execute(new String[] {"http://www.google.com"});

 }

private void Begin() {
    Intent SEARCH_INTENT = getIntent();
    pre_split=SEARCH_INTENT.getStringExtra("Search_Text");
    split_string = pre_split.split(" ");
}


@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_searchinganimationscreen, menu);
    return true;
}

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
    // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
    // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
    int id = item.getItemId();

    //noinspection SimplifiableIfStatement
    if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
        return true;
    }

    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
private class DownloadWebPageTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String> {
    String google_url ="https://www.google.com/#safe=active&q=";

    @Override
    protected String doInBackground(String... urls) {
        String response = "";
        for (String url : urls) {
            DefaultHttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
            HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(url);
            try {
                HttpResponse execute = client.execute(httpGet);
                InputStream content = execute.getEntity().getContent();

                BufferedReader buffer = new BufferedReader(
                        new InputStreamReader(content));
                String s = "";
                while ((s = buffer.readLine()) != null) {
                    response += s;
                }

            } catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
        return response;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
        text.setText(Html.fromHtml(result));
        //throw into summarizer
    }

  }

}