Apache Tika how to extract html body with out header and footer content

Question

I am looking to extract entire body content of html except header and footer, however I am getting exception

org.xml.sax.SAXException: Namespace http

Answer 1

Foudn a solution at based on research boilerpipe detection and this is integrated with apache tika and can be run with the below java code.

import org.apache.tika.exception.TikaException;
import org.apache.tika.io.TikaInputStream;
import org.apache.tika.parser.AutoDetectParser;
import org.apache.tika.parser.html.BoilerpipeContentHandler;
import org.apache.tika.sax.BodyContentHandler;
import org.xml.sax.ContentHandler;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.apache.tika.metadata.Metadata;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.URL;   

public class NewtikaXpath {
    public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException, SAXException, TikaException {
        AutoDetectParser parser = new AutoDetectParser();
        ContentHandler textHandler = new BodyContentHandler();
        Metadata xmetadata = new Metadata();
        try  (InputStream stream = TikaInputStream.get(new URL("your favourite url"))){
            parser.parse(stream, new BoilerpipeContentHandler(textHandler), xmetadata);
            System.out.println("text:\n" + textHandler.toString());
        }
    }

}

You can have a simple demo of boilerpipe detection at.. and more information can be also available at..