How to resolve relative url with Jsoup?

Question

Hi I have a problem with Jsoup.

I scrape a page and get a lot of urls. Some of those are relative urls like: \"../index.php\", \"../admin\"

Answer 1

If element contains a relative link you get the absolute link like this: element.absUrl("href").

But you have to set the base URI for your relative links before (call eg. setBaseUri("http://www.myexample.com") on your Document or Element).

Make shure your base Uri is long enough!

Good:

element.setBaseUri("http://www.example.com/abc/");
element.attr("href", "../b/here");

returns: http://www.example.com/b/here

Bad:

element.setBaseUri("http://www.example.com/abc/");
element.attr("href", "../../b/here");

returns: http://www.example.com/../b/here

--> your relative link is too long for you base uri!