How to parse a HTML file at a URL?

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I am new to iphone development.I am able to parse a Xml file at a URL and retrieve it contents from a particular nodes.

For Parsing at url

 NSString * path = @"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
    [self parseXMLFileAtURL:path];

For retrieving the data i use NSXMLParser .How can i achieve the same thing if i have HTML file at my URL(Source code of the webpage is HTML).Please help me out.Thanks.

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:30:45Z

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You can't parse HTML with NSXMLParser, unless if you want parse it markup by markup.

However it exists some library to do this like the libxml2. You can find a mini tuto here: How to Parse HTML

You can also find more information about it at another topic: parsing HTML on the iPhone

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Warrior Over a year ago

The tutorial you gave me a proper idea of approaching my task.I am not able to understand the logic behind the search of h3 tag which has // too

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