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copied!<p>Use a HTML parser like <a href="http://jsoup.org" rel="noreferrer">Jsoup</a>. This has my preference above the <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3152138/what-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-the-leading-java-html-parsers">other HTML parsers available in Java</a> since it <a href="http://jsoup.org/cookbook/extracting-data/selector-syntax" rel="noreferrer">supports</a> <a href="http://jquery.com" rel="noreferrer">jQuery</a> like <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/selector.html" rel="noreferrer">CSS selectors</a>. Also, its class representing a list of nodes, <a href="http://jsoup.org/apidocs/org/jsoup/select/Elements.html" rel="noreferrer"><code>Elements</code></a>, implements <a href="http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Iterable.html" rel="noreferrer"><code>Iterable</code></a> so that you can iterate over it in an <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/language/foreach.html" rel="noreferrer">enhanced for loop</a> (so there's no need to hassle with verbose <code>Node</code> and <code>NodeList</code> like classes in the average Java DOM parser).</p> <p>Here's a basic kickoff example (just put the <a href="http://jsoup.org/download" rel="noreferrer">latest Jsoup JAR file</a> in classpath):</p> <pre><code>package com.stackoverflow.q2835505; import org.jsoup.Jsoup; import org.jsoup.nodes.Document; import org.jsoup.nodes.Element; import org.jsoup.select.Elements; public class Test { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { String url = "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2835505"; Document document = Jsoup.connect(url).get(); String question = document.select("#question .post-text").text(); System.out.println("Question: " + question); Elements answerers = document.select("#answers .user-details a"); for (Element answerer : answerers) { System.out.println("Answerer: " + answerer.text()); } } } </code></pre> <p>As you might have guessed, this prints your own question and the names of all answerers.</p>

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