Reading the page source inside <form> of a web page

Question

Can any one help me to read the page source present inside the tag.

I have tried with htmlUnit and jsoup... but it retrns only the contents inside and tags. Any responce is highly appreciated.

Answer 1

Use element.html() to read the HTML and not the contain of tag itself in JSoup

For Example:

String html = "<p>An </p><form action="SOMESERVLET"><b>example</b></form> ";
Document doc = Jsoup.parse(html);
String htmlContent = doc.select("form").first().html();

For your case

Document doc = Jsoup.connect("example.com").get(); 
Iterator<Element> itr = doc.select("form").iterator()
while(itr.hasNext()){ 
   Element element = itr.next();
   System.out.println(element.html());
}

Answer 2

Step by step

• read html from url to string
• find <form> tag it is start index
• find </form> tag it is last index , * if this tag is not present last index is length *
• and just substring from start to end index

it is simple algorithm but I think there are a lot of tools that can help you!!!