Not sure how to name this title so i'll just use this, HELP!

[lordarnoud]

I am working on a project at the moment that has to show all the manga ( japanese strips ) from a webpage in a list in the application and when you select one of the manga it downloads it from the webpage in a folder and the application works as a reader as well so you can read the strips in the application. So i need something to get the information between the tags in the source of the webpage in my application and i need to find a way to download the images to my folder.

The webpage has no API
The images have random names

-Arnoud

[masijade]

Google HttpURLConnection.

[lordarnoud]

But how can i use this? I don't see any methods that i can use to get to the HTML tags

[masijade]

That is to get the actual page data. Google for "Java Parse HTML".

That (HttpURLConnection) is also, of course, what you will use to retreive the images from the img tag links.

[lordarnoud]

Well i tried that and i came across Jericho and Jsoup and some others but i can't find what is it that i need to do to get the information from the site because most things are talking about connecting to the ftp or parsing a document but i don't have information to connect and we can't use an downloaded document because i want the program to be up-tp-date when you start it up

[masijade]

Use HttpURLConnection to connect then one of those pakages to parse the document you receive from the connection. I did say you use that to retrieve a document, did I not?

[lordarnoud]

Well you said i had to use that class but i could't find anything usefull in the API but maybe the thing with the packages works so i'll try that out :)

[Norm]

Look at the javax.swing.text packages. It has classes for parsing HTML

[masijade]

Well you said i had to use that class but i could't find anything usefull in the API but maybe the thing with the packages works so i'll try that out :)

What? connect and getInputStream don't tell you anything? Then you, of course, use a Parser to parse the data you retrieve from the inputstream.

[lordarnoud]

I didn't see the getInputStream method in the API( HttpURLConnection (Java 2 Platform SE v1.4.2) ) :| but thanks i'll see how far i can come with these hints :) will post a reply later if i get stuck again or if this solved it :)

[lordarnoud]

I managed to get the html source in my console but i still can't download the image ? Any hints on how to download the image?

[lordarnoud]

mmk found out how to show the image but still not how to save the image to a local folder :|

[masijade]

I'm sorry, but find another hobby, you are not cut out for this one.

[Tolls]

So...you've managed to get hold of the image from the stream, and display it (in Swing?), but you can't figure out how to use that self-same stream to save it to a file?

[Norm]

found out how to show the image but still not how to save the image

Look at the ImageIO class. It has methods for writing images to disk.

[lordarnoud]

@Tolls : Yes that's right :|
@Norm : Thanks i'll try it out :)

[d3n1s]

I'm sorry, but find another hobby, you are not cut out for this one.

WOW, very helpful

[masijade]

WOW, very helpful

What I am getting at is that any programmer should be able to solve at least the simple problems, but it doesn't look as though you are even willing to try solving your own problems.

[lordarnoud]

What I am getting at is that any programmer should be able to solve at least the simple problems, but it doesn't look as though you are even willing to try solving your own problems.

Well believe it or not but i actually spend a lot of time in finding this but it just seemed like i kept missing the answer :| and i would spend more time looking for it but the deadline is in a week :|

[masijade]

Well believe it or not but i actually spend a lot of time in finding this but it just seemed like i kept missing the answer :| and i would spend more time looking for it but the deadline is in a week :|

Then, and again, i'm sorry, but you need to improve your research skills.