Myujth

I need to scrap the postcode from below html code by using the jsoup. I only need postcode which is part of href attribute of a tag, called W2:

<a href="/properties-for-sale/w2/chpk3848653" class="property_photo_holder" style="backgroundimage:url(https://assets.foxtons.co.uk/w/480/1523289105/chpk3848653-23.jpg)"></a>

This is html code:

</div>

<div id="property_1062067" class="property_summary">

<h6><a href="/properties-for-sale/w2/chpk3848653">Lancaster Gate, <span class="property_address_location_name">Bayswater,</span> W2</a></h6>

Can anyone help ?
Thank you.

You can use JSOUP for that, you just need to retrieve the href attribute value as it follows:

Document document = Jsoup.connect(URL).userAgent("Mozilla/5.0").get();

Elements elements = document.select("a");

String href = elements.attr("href");

Now that you have the href attribute as a String, you need to apply a RegEx (Regular Expression) to get the field you want, in this case, the Postal Code contained in: "/properties-for-sale/w2/chpk3848653". To do that you will need to:

String regex = "[a-zA-Z0-9]11";
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex);
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(href);

String postalCode = matcher.find().group(0);

That's all, if you need anything else feel free to ask! Hope this helped you!