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    <p>There's a search function on the site you're scraping that you can emulate using a HttpClient and a HttpPost, as shown in the following example.</p> <p>First and foremost, use a HttpClient - in this case AndroidHttpClient. We mimic the User-Agent of a real browser just in case:</p> <pre><code>mClient = AndroidHttpClient.newInstance( "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111107 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.24", this); </code></pre> <p>Then - an AsyncTask that will perform the network operation:</p> <pre><code>class GetPlayerTask extends AsyncTask&lt;String, Void, String&gt; { @Override protected String doInBackground(String... params) { String result = null; String url = Uri.parse("http://www.rotoworld.com").buildUpon() .appendEncodedPath("content/playersearch.aspx") .appendQueryParameter("searchname", params[0] + " " + params[1]) .build().toString(); HttpPost post = new HttpPost(url); post.addHeader("Referer", "http://www.rotoworld.com"); try { List&lt;NameValuePair&gt; parameters = new ArrayList&lt;NameValuePair&gt;(); parameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("ctl00$cp1$btnAdvancedSearch", "Search")); parameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("ctl00$cp1$radSportSearch", params[2].toUpperCase())); parameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("ctl00$cp1$tbFirstNameSearch", params[0])); parameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("ctl00$cp1$tbLastNameSearch", params[1])); parameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("ctl00$cp1$tbHeaderSearchBox", "LAST NAME, FIRST NAME")); parameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("ctl00$cp1$headlinesNFL$hideHeadlineSport", "")); parameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("ctl00$cp1$siteheader$hidpage", "")); parameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("__EVENTARGUMENT", "")); parameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("__EVENTTARGET", "")); parameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("__EVENTVALIDATION", "/wEWEALJp4KIBAKHlvL3BgLA+sClCQK5vLryBgKn1MPhBAK9kM36BQKj89HmAwLA+vrmBAKk7ayNDgKj85nnAwKU87XnAwKurM6nDAK++qLmBAKD2r2iBgKQ+47mAgK//t/aB6qbH1ovSUf6LkMO7LTmIW5EbRu5")); parameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("__VIEWSTATE", "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")); post.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(parameters)); HttpResponse response = mClient.execute(post); if (response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() == 302) { Header location = response.getFirstHeader("Location"); if (location != null) { result = location.getValue(); } } } catch (IOException e) { Log.e(TAG, "Unable perform request", e); } return result; } @Override protected void onPostExecute(String result) { // Call whatever method you want to notify your Activity // that you've found the player in question onPlayerFound(result); } } </code></pre> <p>The <code>BasicNameValuePair</code>s above were scraped with 2-3s effort on their search page using FireBug. The response from a "successful search" is a redirect message (302), containing the location of the player page - i.e. the identifier you required to download the image.</p> <p>The <code>GetPlayerTask</code> would be used like this:</p> <pre><code> GetPlayerTask fetch = new GetPlayerTask(); // FirstName, LastName, Category (NBA/etc./etc.) fetch.execute("Gerald", "Henderson", "nba"); </code></pre> <p>This would return a path relative to www.rotoworld.com, e.g.</p> <pre><code>"/player/nba/1614/gerald-henderson" </code></pre>
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    1. COThank!! I will try and implement your solution over the weekend. Wish me luck!!!
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    2. COThanks again!! I dont understand one thing. on the onPostExecute there is a method onPlayerFound. How do I notify my activity and transfer the result to the activity? Thanks for your time!!!
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    3. COYou are expected to implement a method in your Activity, e.g. "void onPlayerFound(String playerUrl)" - this will then be called by the GetPlayerTask (that you place inside your activity class) when the download has completed. If no player match was found the "onPlayerFound()" method will receive `null`.
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