How to get text from this html page with jsoup?

Question

I am using this code to retreive the text in the main article on this page.

public class HtmlparserExampleActivity extends Activity {
String outputtext;
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Answer 1

Here's a simplified extract of relevance from your question:

Document doc = Jsoup.connect("http://movies.ign.com/articles/100/1002569p1.html").get();
Elements elementsHtml = doc.getElementsByTag("main-article-content");  
// ...

You're making a fundamental mistake here. There are no HTML tags like <main-article-content> in the document. However, there's a <div id="main-article-content">. According the CSS selector overview about halfway this Jsoup cookbook, you should be using #id selector.

Document doc = Jsoup.connect("http://movies.ign.com/articles/100/1002569p1.html").get();
Element mainArticleContent = doc.select("#main-article-content").first();  
// ...