WebEngine find text

[PhQ]

How can I find text on the webengine?
For example if I go to google.com, how can I get the text from a part of a page? For example how can I have a look what text is in the <title> tags. I know I can do getTitle, but how can I check text in different elements in the page?

[PhQ]

I am using JavaFX's web browser engine.
I need to get the HTML's page source code from org.w3c.dom.html.HTMLDocument. I have been trying to do this for 2 days and I can't figure out how to do it.

How can I do this?



I have posted a similar thread on JavaFX section as well but I got no answers. So I thought I will post this on here. :P

[Norm]

If you used a URLConnection, you would just read it from the site.

[PhQ]

I'm not using URLConnection.
I'm using JavaFX for the web browser, because I don't really know how to make a web browsers. I have tried to make one but I failed. I know that it would be possible to get the source code with URLConnection but what if you need to be logged in ? For example I would like to find out how many private message I have received using the URLConnection, if I will try it - it will say that I will need to login to see the private messages.
But in JavaFX there is a web engine and you can get the page's document and other elements of the page. But I just cant figure out how to get the whole source code.



Another question: would it be hard to make a web browser in java (without Java FX)?

[DarrylBurke]

Lets keep this all in one place. I've merged the two threads.

I don't know of any way to get the raw HTML from WebEngine, but as you've been told you can use URLConnection. Use the right tool for the job and all that.

You can get the page text by using

webEngine.getDocument().getDocumentElement().getTextContent()

db

[PhQ]

I've used webEngine.getDocument().getDocumentElement() to get the elements of my page. :P

But I got an another problem. I don't know whether or not I should make a new thread.

But I have a thread to check some things and then load a new page.
I have used this for my loading: Main.Browser.getBrowser().getEngine().load(Constan ts.PageURLS.RACE.getURL());
The URL is http://lt1.website.lt/race.php
And the URL is a String.

But when it tries to load the page I get this error:

Exception in thread "Thread-4" java.lang.IllegalStateException: Not on FX application thread; currentThread = Thread-4
	at com.sun.javafx.tk.Toolkit.checkFxUserThread(Toolkit.java:218)
	at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumToolkit.checkFxUserThread(QuantumToolkit.java:373)
	at javafx.scene.web.WebEngine.checkThread(WebEngine.java:581)
	at javafx.scene.web.WebEngine.load(WebEngine.java:385)
	at org.srbot.bot.Loop.startLoop(Loop.java:71)
	at org.srbot.bot.Loop.run(Loop.java:26)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

What am I doing wrong?

Here is my thread:

while (isRunning) {

            System.out.println("Loop started");
            if (!m.isRacing() && !Methods.getURL().contains(BotConstants.PageURLS.RACE.getURL())) {
                Methods.setStatus("Loading " + BotConstants.PageURLS.RACE.getURL());


                Methods.println("Loading page...");
                Main.Browser.getBrowser().getEngine().load(BotConstants.PageURLS.RACE.getURL());
                Methods.println("Done loading page");

            } else if (Methods.getURL().contains(BotConstants.PageURLS.RACE.getURL())) {
                Methods.setStatus("Starting race... " + BotConstants.PageURLS.RACE.getURL());
            } else {
                Methods.setStatus("Waiting for race to be finished.");
            }


        }

[DarrylBurke]

What am I doing wrong?

The error message tells you that.

Not on FX application thread

Most FX node methods have to be run on the application thread. If the thread of execution is a background Thread, you will need to wrap the FX node code in a Paltform.runLater(...)

db