I am playing with java and by using a html parser was able to create a class that strips high score info in a simple text format seperated by a pipe: let me know what u think! I got the html parser code from http://htmlparser.sourceforge.net/
/*
* Created on Jul 14, 2006
*
*/
package my.runescape;
import org.htmlparser.Node;
import org.htmlparser.Parser;
import org.htmlparser.nodes.TagNode;
import org.htmlparser.nodes.TextNode;
import org.htmlparser.tags.LinkTag;
import org.htmlparser.tags.TableColumn;
import org.htmlparser.tags.TableRow;
import org.htmlparser.util.NodeIterator;
import org.htmlparser.util.NodeList;
import org.htmlparser.util.ParserException;
/**
*/
public class FirstTest {
private StringBuffer list = new StringBuffer();
public static void main(String[] args) {
FirstTest mine = new FirstTest();
mine.start();
System.out.println(mine.list.toString());
}
private void start() {
Parser parser;
try {
parser = new Parser ("http://hiscore.runescape.com/lang/en/aff/runescape/hiscorepersonal.ws?user1=simeon_creel");
NodeIterator i = parser.elements ();
while ((i.hasMoreNodes ())){
this.processMyNodes(i.nextNode ());
}
} catch (ParserException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
/**
*/
private void processMyNodes(Node node) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
if (node instanceof TagNode)
{
// downcast to TagNode
TagNode tag = (TagNode)node;
if(node instanceof TableRow){
// downcast to TableRow
TableRow tbRow = (TableRow)node;
if (tbRow.getColumnCount()>0) {
TableColumn[] tbCols = tbRow.getColumns();
for (int i = 0; i < tbCols.length; i++) {
if (tbCols[i].getLastChild() instanceof LinkTag){
LinkTag link = (LinkTag)tbCols[i].getLastChild();
list.append("|"+link.getLinkText());
}
else if (tbCols[i].getLastChild() instanceof TextNode)
{
// downcast to TextNode
TextNode text = (TextNode)tbCols[i].getLastChild();
// do whatever processing you want with the text
if (!text.getText().equalsIgnoreCase(" ")) list.append("|"+text.getText());
}//end of else if
}//end of For loop
}
}
NodeList nl = tag.getChildren ();
if (null != nl){
try {
for (NodeIterator i = nl.elements (); i.hasMoreNodes(); )
processMyNodes (i.nextNode ());
} catch (ParserException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}// End of Catch
}// End of if null
}// End of if node
}//end of function
}
