Get all text which is on screen in UIWebView

Question

I need to get all words, which are visible on screen from UIWebView. My UIWebView have html content.

Someone can help me please.

Are you looking for all the html of the page that is being shown, or just the html that is visible on the screen at that moment? and do you want only the text or the entire html? — Manuel, May 08 '12 at 12:38
I don't think there is a method to call where one could get this. The only way i can think of is to parse the full html and go from there. But im not sure as i have never tried something like that — Manuel, May 08 '12 at 12:47

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered May 08 '12 at 13:05

9

Use following way that will give you all text of UIWebView.

NSString *yourstring = [webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString: 
                  @"document.body.innerText"];

Hope, this will help you...

answered May 08 '12 at 13:05

Nitin

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i need to get text which is visible on screen – Romit M. May 08 '12 at 13:10
Dude i checked it's give all text that are visible in web view. Try to open http://www.google.com and compare the out put web vie text. – Nitin May 08 '12 at 13:18
1

ya it gives me all content of html. not only visible text i tried it. – Romit M. May 08 '12 at 13:24
This worked for me with the pages but I only tested on Wikipedia pages – JuJoDi Aug 27 '13 at 13:10

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered May 08 '12 at 12:56

5

you can use

NSString *str = [self.youWebView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:
                                  @"document.body.textContent"];

answered May 08 '12 at 12:56

adali

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thank you but i don't need to get all content of HTML, i need to get on screen text. – Romit M. May 08 '12 at 13:03

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