使用 XPATH 和 HTML Cleaner 解析 HTML/XML
（Using XPATH and HTML Cleaner to parse HTML / XML）
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使用 XPATH 和 HTML Cleaner 解析 HTML/XML
（Using XPATH and HTML Cleaner to parse HTML / XML）
大家好
Hey everyone,
有时我发现有一种能力十分有用，尤其在 Web 相关的应用中，那就是从 web 站点获取 HTML 并且从 HTML 解析数据，或是任何你要想得到的内容（对于我的情况大多总是数据）。
So something that I’ve found to be extremely useful (especially in web related applications) is the ability to retrieve HTML from websites and parse their HTML for data or whatever you may be looking for (in my case it is almost always data).
I actually use this technique to do the real time stock/option imports for my Black-Scholes/Implied Volatility applications, so if you’re looking for an example on how to retrieve and parse HTML and run “queries” over it using, say, XPATH, then this post is for you.
Now, before we begin, in order to do this you will have to reference an external JAR in your project’s build path. The JAR that I use comes from HtmlCleaner which even gives you an example of how they use it here HtmlCleaner Example, but in addition to that I’ll show you an example of how I use it.
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public
class
OptionScraper {
// EXAMPLE XPATH QUERIES IN THE FORM OF STRINGS - WILL BE USED LATER
private
static
final
String NAME_XPATH =
"//div[@class='yfi_quote']/div[@class='hd']/h2"
;
private
static
final
String TIME_XPATH =
"//table[@id='time_table']/tbody/tr/td[@class='yfnc_tabledata1']"
;
private
static
final
String PRICE_XPATH =
"//table[@id='price_table']//tr//span"
;
// TAGNODE OBJECT, ITS USE WILL COME IN LATER
private
static
TagNode node;
// A METHOD THAT HELPS ME RETRIEVE THE STOCK OPTION'S DATA BASED OFF THE NAME (I.E. GOUAA IS ONE OF GOOGLE'S STOCK OPTIONS)
public
static
Option getOptionFromName(String name)
throws
XPatherException, ParserConfigurationException,SAXException, IOException, XPatherException {
// THE URL WHOSE HTML I WANT TO RETRIEVE AND PARSE
// THIS IS WHERE THE HTMLCLEANER COMES IN, I INITIALIZE IT HERE
HtmlCleaner cleaner =
new
HtmlCleaner();
CleanerProperties props = cleaner.getProperties();
props.setAllowHtmlInsideAttributes(
true
);
props.setAllowMultiWordAttributes(
true
);
props.setRecognizeUnicodeChars(
true
);
props.setOmitComments(
true
);
// OPEN A CONNECTION TO THE DESIRED URL
URL url =
new
URL(option_url);
URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
//USE THE CLEANER TO "CLEAN" THE HTML AND RETURN IT AS A TAGNODE OBJECT
node = cleaner.clean(
new
InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
// ONCE THE HTML IS CLEANED, THEN YOU CAN RUN YOUR XPATH EXPRESSIONS ON THE NODE, WHICH WILL THEN RETURN AN ARRAY OF TAGNODE OBJECTS (THESE ARE RETURNED AS OBJECTS BUT GET CASTED BELOW)
Object[] info_nodes = node.evaluateXPath(NAME_XPATH);
Object[] time_nodes = node.evaluateXPath(TIME_XPATH);
Object[] price_nodes = node.evaluateXPath(PRICE_XPATH);
// HERE I JUST DO A SIMPLE CHECK TO MAKE SURE THAT MY XPATH WAS CORRECT AND THAT AN ACTUAL NODE(S) WAS RETURNED
if
(info_nodes.length >
0
) {
// CASTED TO A TAGNODE
TagNode info_node = (TagNode) info_nodes[
0
];
// HOW TO RETRIEVE THE CONTENTS AS A STRING
String info = info_node.getChildren().iterator().next().toString().trim();
// SOME METHOD THAT PROCESSES THE STRING OF INFORMATION (IN MY CASE, THIS WAS THE STOCK QUOTE, ETC)
processInfoNode(o, info);
}
if
(time_nodes.length >
0
) {
TagNode time_node = (TagNode) time_nodes[
0
];
String date = time_node.getChildren().iterator().next().toString().trim();
// DATE RETURNED IN 15-JAN-10 FORMAT, SO THIS IS SOME METHOD I WROTE TO JUST PARSE THAT STRING INTO THE FORMAT THAT I USE
processDateNode(o, date);
}
if
(price_nodes.length >
0
) {
TagNode price_node = (TagNode) price_nodes[
0
];
double
price = Double.parseDouble(price_node.getChildren().iterator().next().toString().trim());
o.setPremium(price);
}
return
o;
}
}
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So that’s it! Once you include the JAR in your build path, everything else is pretty easy! It’s a great tool to use. However, it does require knowledge of XPATH but XPATH isn’t too hard to pick up and is useful to know so if you don’t know it then take a look at the link.
Now, a warning to everyone. It’s documented that the XPATH expressions recognized by HtmlCleaner is not complete in the sense that only “basic” XPATH is recognized. What’s excluded? For instance, you can’t use any of the “axes” operators (i.e. parent, ancestor, following, following-sibling, etc), but in my experience everything else is fair game. Yes, it sucks, and many times it can make your life a little bit harder, but usually it just requires you to be a tad more clever with your XPATH expressions before you can pull the desired information.
And of course, this technique works for XML documents as well!
Hope this was helpful to everyone. Let me know if you’re confused anywhere.
- jwei
