How to get the pure raw HTML of a page in HTMLUnit while ignoring JavaScript and CSS?

Question

I just want the text content of page and I want the fetching to be as lightweight as possible. Can I turn off all the parsing and additional loading of JavaScript, CSS and other external content that HTMLUnit does out of the box?

Answer 1

I think the closest thing to what you're looking for is:

WebClient webClient = new WebClient();
webClient.setCssEnabled(false);
webClient.setAppletEnabled(false);
webClient.setJavaScriptEnabled(false);

For HtmlUnit 2.13 and above, use webclient.getOptions().

Also this question and answer might be useful too. It really made things faster for me, but I had to recompile HtmlUnit...

Finally, in order to get the original content of the page (instead of the output of asXml()) try the following:

WebClient webClient = new WebClient();
HtmlPage page = webClient.getPage("http://www.yourpage.com");
String originalHtml = page.getWebResponse().getContentAsString();