Retrieve data from website in android app

Question

How can we retrieve data from a website and parse it into a readable format in the Android application  This means I want to extract data from website and use it in my android application  formatted in my way  It could be any website

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You can use jsoup to parse any kind of web page  Here you can find the jsoup library and full source code   Here is an example  http   desicoding blogspot com 2011 03 how-to-parse-html-in-java-jsoup html  To install in Eclipse    Right Click on project  BuildPath Add External Archives select the  jar file   You can parse according to tag parent child very comfortably

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Use the WebView  Simple     http   developer android com reference android webkit WebView html

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Use this   DefaultHttpClient httpClient   new DefaultHttpClient    HttpGet httpGet   new HttpGet  http   www someplace com    ResponseHandler lt String gt  resHandler   new BasicResponseHandler    String page   httpClient execute httpGet  resHandler     This can be used to grab the whole webpage as a string of html  i e     lt html gt     lt  html gt    Note  You need to declare the following  uses-permission  in the android manifest xml file    answer by  Squonk here    And also check this answer

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You can do the HTML parsing but it is not at all recommended instead ask the website owners to provide web services then you can parse that information

[android] Retrieve data from website in android app

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