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    copied!<p>I'm relatively new to using jsoup, and I can't seem to find the correct query to parse out the value I'm looking for. The HTML is as follows.</p> <p></p> <pre><code> &lt;img src='http://rootzwiki.com/public/style_images/ginger/t_unread.png' alt='New Replies' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class='col_f_content '&gt; &lt;h4&gt;&lt;a id="tid-link-12251" href="http://rootzwiki.com/topic/12251-romlte-rootzboat-403-v61/" title='View topic, started 17 December 2011 - 09:32 AM' class='topic_title'&gt;[ROM][LTE] RootzBoat 4.0.3 V6.1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span class='desc lighter blend_links'&gt; Started by &lt;a hovercard-ref="member" hovercard-id="5" class="_hovertrigger url fn " href='http://rootzwiki.com/user/5-birdman/'&gt;birdman&lt;/a&gt;, 17 Dec 2011 &lt;/span&gt; &lt;ul class='mini_pagination'&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://rootzwiki.com/topic/12251-romlte-rootzboat-403-v61/" title='Go to page 1'&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://rootzwiki.com/topic/12251-romlte-rootzboat-403-v61/page__st__10" title='Go to page 2'&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://rootzwiki.com/topic/12251-romlte-rootzboat-403-v61/page__st__20" title='Go to page 3'&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://rootzwiki.com/topic/12251-romlte-rootzboat-403-v61/page__st__1990" title='Go to page 200'&gt;200 &amp;rarr;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class='col_f_preview __topic_preview'&gt; &lt;a href='http://rootzwiki.com/topic/12251-romlte-rootzboat-403-v61/' class='expander closed' title='Preview this topic'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class='col_f_views desc blend_links'&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;span class='ipsBadge ipsBadge_orange'&gt;Hot&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://rootzwiki.com/index.php?app=forums&amp;amp;module=extras&amp;amp;section=stats&amp;amp;do=who&amp;amp;t=12251" onclick="return ipb.forums.retrieveWhoPosted( 12251 );"&gt;1,999 replies&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class='views desc'&gt;180,213 views&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class='col_f_post'&gt; &lt;a href='http://rootzwiki.com/user/49940-jakeday/' class='ipsUserPhotoLink left'&gt; &lt;img src='http://rootzwiki.com/uploads/profile/photo-thumb-49940.jpg' class='ipsUserPhoto ipsUserPhoto_mini' /&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul class='last_post ipsType_small'&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a hovercard-ref="member" hovercard-id="49940" class="_hovertrigger url fn " href='http://rootzwiki.com/user/49940-jakeday/'&gt;jakeday&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;a href='http://rootzwiki.com/topic/12251-romlte-rootzboat-403-v61/page__view__getlastpost' title='Go to last post'&gt;Today, 04:20 AM&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/td&gt; </code></pre> <p></p> <p>I need to parse out <code>birdman</code> from there. I know that once I've defined the element, I can get "birdman" out with <code>author.text();</code>, but I cant figure out how to define the author element. I thought perhaps the following block of code would work, but as I mentioned, I'm pretty new to jsoup and html and it obviously didnt work. Theres nothing wrong with the connection, and jsoup is working for the other values I parsed out.</p> <pre><code> TitleResults titleArray = new TitleResults(); Document doc = null; try { doc = Jsoup.connect(Constants.FORUM).get(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } Elements threads = doc.select(".topic_title"); for (Element thread : threads) { titleArray = new TitleResults(); //Thread title threadTitle = thread.text(); titleArray.setItemName(threadTitle); //Thread link String threadStr = thread.attr("abs:href"); String endTag = "/page__view__getnewpost"; //trim link threadStr = new String(threadStr.replace(endTag, "")); threadArray.add(threadStr); titleArray.setAuthorDate("Author/Date"); results.add(titleArray); } Elements authors = doc.select("a[hovercard-ref]"); for (Element author : authors) { if (author.attr("abs:href").contains("/user/")){ Log.d("POC", "SUCCESS " + author.attr("abs:href")); } else { Log.d("POC", "FAILURE " + author.text()); } } } </code></pre>
 

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