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"
, "../details.php"
.
I use attr("abs:href")
to get the absolute url, but this links are rendered like www.domain.com/../admin.php
I would like to know if this is a bug.
Is there a way to get the real absolute path with jsoup? how can I solve this?
I have tried also with absurl("href")
, but not working.
also a good option is to use the abs:href or abs:src attributes:
String relHref = link.attr("href"); // == "/"
String absHref = link.attr("abs:href"); // "http://jsoup.org/"
this is also described there:
http://jsoup.org/cookbook/extracting-data/working-with-urls
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!