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

I know it'a been a year and a half, but I'm now facing the same issue. I solved it eventually by running my Javascript code inside a Node engine that is running inside my Android App. It's called JXCore. You can take a look. Also, take a look at this sample that runs Javascript without a WebView. I really would like to know what did you end up using?