How to programmatically access web page in java

Question

There is a web page from which I want to retrieve a certain string. In order to do so, I need to login, click some buttons, fill a text box, click another button - and then the

Answer 1

The super simple way to do this is using HtmlUnit here:

http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/

and what you want to do can be as simple as:

@Test
public void homePage() throws Exception {
    final WebClient webClient = new WebClient();
    final HtmlPage page = webClient.getPage("http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net");
    assertEquals("HtmlUnit - Welcome to HtmlUnit", page.getTitleText());
}