Sample Programs

The example programs included with the HTML Parser distribution are listed below, with some details.

Note: On unix systems if you used the Java jar command or some older unzip utility to extract the distribution zip file, the executable flag will not have been preserved on the files in the bin directory. You can fix this by issuing the following command:

    chmod u+x bin/*
    

Parser	Parse a web page and print the tags in a simple loop. org.htmlparser.Parser.main(String[] args) bin/parser http://website_url [tag_name] where tag_name is an optional tag name to be used as a filter, i.e. A - Show only the link tags extracted from the document IMG - Show only the image tags extracted from the document TITLE - Extract the title from the document NOTE: this is also the default program for the htmlparser.jar, so the above could be: java -jar lib/htmlparser.jar http://website_url [tag_name]
Lexer	Print the low level nodes of a web page. org.htmlparser.lexer.Lexer bin/lexer http://website_url
Filter Builder	Interactively generate source code to extract web site contents. org.htmlparser.parserapplications.filterbuilder.FilterBuilder bin/filterbuilder
Link Extractor	Extract links/mail addresses from a web page. org.htmlparser.parserapplications.LinkExtractor bin/linkextractor http://website_url [-maillinks] the optional -maillinks argument causes mailto: links to be printed
String Extractor	Extract text from a web page. org.htmlparser.parserapplications.StringExtractor bin/stringextractor http://website_url [-links] the optional -links argument causes hyperlinks to be shown within the text
Site Capturer	Save a web site locally. org.htmlparser.parserapplications.SiteCapturer bin/sitecapturer http://source_website /target_directory/ [true|false] the optional boolean argument determines whether resources such as images, audio and video are to be captured
Thumbelina	View images behind thumbnails. org.htmlparser.lexerapplications.thumbelina.Thumbelina bin/thumbelina [http://starting_website]
BeanyBaby	Parser Java Bean demo. org.htmlparser.beans.BeanyBaby bin/beanybaby [http://starting_website]
Translate	Numeric character reference and character entity reference to unicode codec. org.htmlparser.util.Translate bin/translate [-encode] <input_file >output_file