Java Classes to help extract metadata from Web pages

[stargazerr]

Hi,

I have a bit of a unique problem. I am trying to write a program that can extract the Title, date and author from an online news article.

Are there any built in classes in the Java libraries that would allow me to do this ?? This is a bit urgent and any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[emceenugget]

look up html parsers that you can use with your program. i've only done xml parsing and that was a year ago, so i don't remember much about it, but here's what a quick google search on "java html parser" got me: Open Source HTML Parsers in Java

[stargazerr]

Thanks a million emceenugget :) .. Absolute Legend :)

This will help a lot. I will give HTML parsing a shot tonite.

In the meanwhile, I have actually never done this. This is my first time trying metadata extraction from web pages. Would you or anyone on this forum know of an example program I can study that does something similar to extracting data from a news article ?? It will give me some insight into how to do this.

Much appreciated.