Html parsing with JSoup

Question

I am trying to parse the html of the following URL:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-050-thermal-energy-fall-2002/

to obtain the te

Answer 1

Here's a short example:

// Connect to the website and parse it into a document
Document doc = Jsoup.connect("http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-050-thermal-energy-fall-2002/").get();

// Select all elements you need (se below for documentation)
Elements elements = doc.select("div[class=chpstaff] p");

// Get the text of the first element
String instructor = elements.first().text();

// eg. print the result
System.out.println(instructor);

Take a look at the documentation of the jsoup selector api here: Jsoup Codebook
Its not very difficult to use but very powerful.