Java code for extracting data from a HTML Table from a web page

[Nandu Vajjala]

Hi
We need some pointers on how do we extract data from a HTML Table from a web page using a Java program.
For instance: http://www.fsa.gov.uk/ukla/hcaList.do

Above link has a table in the below format

Company name Country of Incorporation Home member state
3I INFRASTRUCTURE PLC CHANNEL ISLANDS UNITED KINGDOM
888 HOLDINGS PLC GIBRALTAR UNITED KINGDOM

We need to extract the data and convert it to a csv format file.

Thanks
Anand Vardhan

[Praveen mourya Kumar]

Hi,

your problem can be solve by using the webcrawler in Java. for more help, please try to visit the following link :
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/ThirdParty/WebCrawler/
Good Luck

[Alec Lee]

You should better use Javascript to extract the HTML data. Using Java means you program needs to act as an HTML client. Although open source solution like Jakarta's HttpClient already existing, Javascript is much better choice as the browser already support it. In particular, you will probably need to use HTA (HTML Application) file (see MSDN for it, basically a HTML file with embedded javascript renamed to .hta).

[Christophe Verré]

Do not duplicate threads. Closing this one. Continue there.