Android: Using WebView outside an Activity context

Question

I am trying to achieve Web Scraping through a background IntentService that periodically scrape a website without a view displaying on the users phone.

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Answer 1

or a substitute for a WebView that can accomplish the same <=== if you do not wish to show the loaded info on UI, maybe you can try to use HTTP to call the url directly, and process on the returned response from HTTP