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JSoup not able to get links from html

I’m trying to get links from html of a site but unable to do so using Jsoup.

This is the HTML:

<div class="anime_muti_link">
    <ul>
  <li><div class="doamin">Domain</div><div class="link">Link</div></li>
  <li class="anime">
    <a href="#" class="active" rel="1" data-video="example.com" ><div class="server m1">Server m1</div><span>Watch This Link</span></a>
  </li>
    
  <li class="anime">
    <a href="#" rel="1" data-video="example.com" ><div class="server m1">Server m2</div><span>Watch This Link</span></a>
  </li>
  
              <li class="xstreamcdn">
      <a href="#" rel="29" data-video="example.com">Xstreamcdn</div><span>Watch This Link</span></a>
    </li>
          <li class="mixdrop">
      <a href="#" rel="7" data-video="example.com"><div class="server mixdrop">Mixdrop</div><span>Watch This Link</span></a>
    </li>
          <li class="streamsb">
      <a href="#" rel="13" data-video="example.com">StreamSB</div><span>Watch This Link</span></a>
    </li>
          <li class="doodstream">
      <a href="#" rel="14" data-video="example.com">Doodstream</div><span>Watch This Link</span></a>
    </li>
  
</ul>
</div>

This is the android code that I wrote which doesn’t seem to work:

try {
                Document doc = Jsoup.connect(URL).get();
                Elements content = doc.getElementsByClass("anime_muti_link");
                Elements links = content.select("a");

                String[] urls = new String[links.size()];
                for (int i = 0; i < links.size(); i++) {
                    urls[i] = links.get(i).attr("data-video");
                    if (!urls[i].startsWith("https://")) {
                        urls[i] = "https:" + urls[i];
                    }
                }
                arrayList.addAll(Arrays.asList(urls));
                Log.d("CALLING_URL", "Links: " + Arrays.toString(urls));

            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.getMessage();
            }

Can someone please help me with this? Thanks

Edit: Basically I’m trying to get those 6 links and add them to my list to use it within the app.

Edit 2:

So I found another HTML that can seems better:

<div class="heading-servers">
     <span><i class="fa fa-signal"></i> Servers</span>
     <ul class="servers">
      <li data-vs="https://example.com" class="server server-active" style="display: block;" onclick="return loadIframe('ifrm', this.getAttribute('data-vs'));">Netu</li>
      <li data-vs="https://example.com" class="server" style="display: block;" onclick="return loadIframe('ifrm', this.getAttribute('data-vs'));">VideoVard</li>
      <li data-vs="https://example.com" class="server" style="display: block;" onclick="return loadIframe('ifrm', this.getAttribute('data-vs'));">Doodstream</li>
      <li data-vs="https://example.com" class="server" style="display: block;" onclick="return loadIframe('ifrm', this.getAttribute('data-vs'));">Okstream</li>
     </ul>
    </div>

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Answer

As you can see, in this li definition you are including a nested div:

<li class="xstreamcdn">
      <a href="#" rel="29" data-video="example.com">Xstreamcdn</div><span>Watch This Link</span></a>
    </li>

This is causing that the variable content, the HTML fragment with class anime_muti_link, to look like:

<div class="anime_muti_link"> 
 <ul> 
  <li>
   <div class="doamin">
    Domain
   </div>
   <div class="link">
    Link
   </div></li> 
  <li class="anime"> <a href="#" class="active" rel="1" data-video="example.com">
    <div class="server m1">
     Server m1
    </div><span>Watch This Link</span></a> </li> 
  <li class="anime"> <a href="#" rel="1" data-video="example.com">
    <div class="server m1">
     Server m2
    </div><span>Watch This Link</span></a> </li> 
  <li class="xstreamcdn"> <a href="#" rel="29" data-video="example.com">Xstreamcdn</a></li>
 </ul>
</div>

A similar result will be obtained even if you tidy your HTML. I used this code from one of my previous answers:

Tidy tidy = new Tidy();
tidy.setXHTML(true);
tidy.setIndentContent(true);
tidy.setPrintBodyOnly(true);
tidy.setInputEncoding("UTF-8");
tidy.setOutputEncoding("UTF-8");
tidy.setSmartIndent(true);
tidy.setShowWarnings(false);
tidy.setQuiet(true);
tidy.setTidyMark(false);

org.w3c.dom.Document htmlDOM = tidy.parseDOM(new ByteArrayInputStream(html.getBytes()), null);

OutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
tidy.pprint(htmlDOM, out);
String tidiedHtml = out.toString();
// System.out.println(tidiedHtml);

Document document = Jsoup.parse(tidiedHtml);
Elements content = document.getElementsByClass("anime_muti_link");
System.out.println(content);

And this is why you are finding only three anchors.

Please, try correcting your HTML or selecting the anchor tag as the document level instead:

Document document = Jsoup.parse(html);
// Elements content = document.getElementsByClass("anime_muti_link");
// System.out.println(content);
Elements links = document.select("a");

String[] urls = new String[links.size()];
for (int i = 0; i < links.size(); i++) {
  urls[i] = links.get(i).attr("data-video");
  if (!urls[i].startsWith("https://")) {
    urls[i] = "https://" + urls[i];
  }
}
System.out.println(Arrays.asList(urls));

If the result obtained contains undesired links, perhaps you can try narrowing the selector used, something like:

document.select(".anime_muti_link a")

If this doesn’t work, another possible alternative could be selecting the anchor elements with a data-video attribute, a[data-video]:

Document document = Jsoup.parse(html);
Elements videoLinks = document.select("a[data-video]");

String[] urls = new String[videoLinks.size()];
for (int i = 0; i < videoLinks.size(); i++) {
  urls[i] = videoLinks.get(i).attr("data-video");
  if (!urls[i].startsWith("https://")) {
    urls[i] = "https://" + urls[i];
  }
}
System.out.println(Arrays.asList(urls));

With your new test case, you can obtain the desired information with a very similar code:

String html = "<div class="heading-servers">n" +
    "     <span><i class="fa fa-signal"></i> Servers</span>n" +
    "     <ul class="servers">n" +
    "      <li data-vs="https://example.com" class="server server-active" style="display: block;" onclick="return loadIframe('ifrm', this.getAttribute('data-vs'));">Netu</li>n" +
    "      <li data-vs="https://example.com" class="server" style="display: block;" onclick="return loadIframe('ifrm', this.getAttribute('data-vs'));">VideoVard</li>n" +
    "      <li data-vs="https://example.com" class="server" style="display: block;" onclick="return loadIframe('ifrm', this.getAttribute('data-vs'));">Doodstream</li>n" +
    "      <li data-vs="https://example.com" class="server" style="display: block;" onclick="return loadIframe('ifrm', this.getAttribute('data-vs'));">Okstream</li>n" +
    "     </ul>n" +
    "    </div>";

Document document = Jsoup.parse(html);
Elements videoLinks = document.select("div.heading-servers ul.servers li.server");

String[] urls = new String[videoLinks.size()];
for (int i = 0; i < videoLinks.size(); i++) {
  urls[i] = videoLinks.get(i).attr("data-vs");
  if (!urls[i].startsWith("https://")) {
    urls[i] = "https://" + urls[i];
  }
}

System.out.println(Arrays.asList(urls));

The most important part is the definition of the selector that should be applied to the parsed document, div.heading-servers ul.servers li.server in our case.

I provided a selector with many fragments, but depending on the actual use HTML it could be simplified with ul.servers li.server or even li.server.

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