[Java] getting links from website source

[pietertje]

So I'm writing this program in java which will connect to a website, get it's source and search it for links (<a href="link" target="_blank">)

Now in php I would just do

<?php
preg_match_all("/<a href=\"(.*?)\" target=\"_blank\">/", $source, $matches);
?>

Which would put all the links neatly in $matches[1] in array form. I have however no idea how to do this in java, I know I have to use java.util.regex.Matcher and java.util.regex.Pattern, but how to go from there has left me stumped.

Could anyone help me out here?

Thanks.

[masijade]

Google Java HTML Parser, then download one, then parse the source, the pull the links from the parsed structure.

If you fell you must use regex, then simply use regex, but, of course, be warned that regex will not catch all of them, and the one you've posted above will, actually, only catch a select few (even in php). Use the parser and catch all of them (except, maybe, some of those that are "constructed" in JavaScript "dynamically" (God I hate that word)).

[Eranga]

If your files are not considerably larger, then I use regex with loading the complete content at once, and process line by line.

[pietertje]

Google Java HTML Parser, then download one, then parse the source, the pull the links from the parsed structure.

If you fell you must use regex, then simply use regex, but, of course, be warned that regex will not catch all of them, and the one you've posted above will, actually, only catch a select few (even in php). Use the parser and catch all of them (except, maybe, some of those that are "constructed" in JavaScript "dynamically" (God I hate that word)).

Well yes I know, that's the point I only need the links that have specific characteristics.

I'm making a 4chan image downloader you see, so I need all the image links from a specific thread. I hope that makes my problem more clear.

[masijade]

"links from a specific thread" make no sense, as pertains to HTML.

In any case, see the API docs Pattern and Matcher classes (and at least one of them will contain a link to Sun's tutorials for them, somewhere in it).

It is still IMHO, the wrong way to go, but, hey, to each his own.

[JosAH]

(except, maybe, some of those that are "constructed" in JavaScript "dynamically" (God I hate that word)).

I just wanted to say that it's dynamically good weather overhere and my liquor store owner has dynamically delivered a crate of Grosch beer; in a moment I'm going to dynamically open one because I'm dynamically thirsty.

kindest regards,

Jos (<--- very dynamic ;-)

[masijade]

Oh you dynamo! ;-)