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    copied!<p>I've been trying to get information from a webpage, specifically this site: <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=%22pulmonary%20disease%2C%20chronic%20obstructive%22%5BMesh%5D" rel="nofollow">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=%22pulmonary%20disease%2C%20chronic%20obstructive%22%5BMesh%5D</a> (among other similar ones). I'm using the URL and URLConnection packages to do so. I'm trying to get a certain number from the webpage - on this page, I want the total number of articles (16428).</p> <p>It says this near the top of the page: "Results: 1 to 20 of 16428" and when I look at the page source manually I can find this. However, when I try to use the java connection to obtain this number from the page source, for some reason the number it gets is "863399" instead of "16428". </p> <p>Code:</p> <pre><code> URL connection = new URL("http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=%22pulmonary%20disease%2C%20chronic%20obstructive%22%5BMesh%5D"); URLConnection yc = connection.openConnection(); BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(yc.getInputStream())); String html = ""; String inputLine; while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) html += inputLine; in.close(); int startMarker = html.indexOf("ncbi_resultcount"); int endMarker = html.indexOf("ncbi_op"); System.out.println(html.substring(startMarker, endMarker)); </code></pre> <p>When I run this code, I get: </p> <blockquote> <p>ncbi_resultcount" content="863399" /></p> </blockquote> <p>rather than: </p> <blockquote> <p>ncbi_resultcount" content="16428" /> </p> </blockquote> <p>Does anyone know why this is / how I can fix it?</p> <p>Thanks!</p>
 

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