Parse HTML inside of ... Tag

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All- I have the following code:

class AddStringTask extends AsyncTask<Void, String, Void> {    
    @Override
    protected Void doInBackground(Void... unused) {
        org.jsoup.nodes.Document doc = null;
        try {
            doc = Jsoup.connect("http://scores.espn.go.com/
                                 nfl/gamecast?
                                 gameId=320909007',%20'gamecast320909007"
                               ).get();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        docTitle = doc.select("head").first().text();
        return null;    
    }
}

I get the output "NFL Gamecast - Chicago vs Green Bay" (Green Bay won by the way). That is great but when I tried to get the actual score I could not figure out how. My problem was I was trying to replace "head" with <div id="awayScoreBox" class="vscorebox">...</div> (this is under the <Body> Tag). So following the format of using the "head" tag I tried this:

docTitle = doc.select("div id="awayScoreBox" class="vscorebox"").first().text();
return null;

As you can imagine I got a syntax error but could not figure out why. I realize that I might have to specify that this is under the <Body> tag but I could not find any information on how to go about doing this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Please get used to call it tag, not tag: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4351857/is-html-case-sensitive — Bananeweizen, Sep 15 '12 at 06:30

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:25

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It is a css selector for selecting id and class at the same time so it's

doc.select("div#awayScoreBox.vscorebox");

edited May 23 '17 at 10:25

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answered Sep 15 '12 at 00:01

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Unfortunately I got a NullPointerException. Any ideas? – ninge Sep 15 '12 at 00:05
Solved that. Now the application loads but shows a blank where the info should be. Might just be because there is no info to display but seems unlikely...Let me try a different tag... – ninge Sep 15 '12 at 00:10
there is no text inside that div – gigadot Sep 15 '12 at 00:12
So, are you saying that there are only numbers (the score)? – ninge Sep 15 '12 at 00:18
i donwloaded that link but it's empty inside that div, no text or number. – gigadot Sep 15 '12 at 00:24
i think the score or whatever you are looking is injected at runtime using javascript. – gigadot Sep 15 '12 at 00:25
Ok. Let me try a different website and a different tag. – ninge Sep 15 '12 at 00:26
Finally. It worked on stackoverflow on the top w=questions. Thanks you so much for your help. Have a good night. – ninge Sep 15 '12 at 00:32

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 15 '12 at 00:12

You are not escaping the quotes. You are currently using this.

docTitle = doc.select("div id="awayScoreBox" class="vscorebox"").first().text();
return null;

Change doc.select part to this.

doc.select("div id=\"awayScoreBox\" class=\"vscorebox\"").first().text();

This is why you get a SyntaxException.

Parse HTML inside of ... Tag

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