how to get html content from a webview?

Question

Which is the simplest method to get html code from a webview? I have tried several methods from stackoverflow and google, but can\'t find an exact method. Please mention an

Answer 1

Android WebView is just another render engine that render HTML contents downloaded from a HTTP server, much like Chrome or FireFox. I don't know the reason why you need get the rendered page (or screenshot) from WebView. For most of situation, this is not necessary. You can always get the raw HTML content from HTTP server directly.

There are already answers posted talking about getting the raw stream using HttpUrlConnection or HttpClient. Alternatively, there is a very handy library when dealing with HTML content parse/process on Android: JSoup, it provide very simple API to get HTML contents form HTTP server, and provide an abstract representation of HTML document to help us manage HTML parsing not only in a more OO style but also much easily:

// Single line of statement to get HTML document from HTTP server.
Document doc = Jsoup.connect("http://en.wikipedia.org/").get();

It is handy when, for example, you want to download HTML document first then add some custom css or javascript to it before passing it to WebView for rendering. Much more on their official web site, worth to check it out.