Java using jsoup to get text in html li tab

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<div id="divEvents">

    <ul class="News_Title_Link">

    <li style="line-height:20px"><a href="/article/us-asia-storm-japan-idUSKBN1AO09Y" title="Now a tropical storm, Noru rakes Japan's main island">Now a tropical storm, Noru rakes Japan's main island</a> (21/03/2017 12:11)</li>

    <li style="line-height:20px"><a href="/article/us-southkorea-military-idUSKBN1AO0C9" title="South Korea's Moon taps Air Force chief to head Joint Chiefs of Staff">South Korea's Moon taps Air Force chief to head Joint Chiefs of Staff</a> (18/03/2015 17:16)</li>

I use jsoup to get the date and time, ex :"21/03/2017 12:11" but the output is "South Korea's Moon taps Air Force chief to head Joint Chiefs of Staff (17/03/2017 17:16)".

Here is my code

 Document doc = Jsoup.connect(url).get();
 Element time = doc.select("li").get(1);
 String text = time.text();

Can anyone help to fix the code to get only date and time.

Thank you.

maybe you wanted time.ownText() so as not to get the text of the sub-elements? — Glenn
– Glenn, Commented Aug 9, 2017 at 2:32

Glenn · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-09 02:39:02Z

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Try using time.ownText() in order to get the text of the selected <li> element while excluding the text of the <a> sub-element of <li>.

answered Aug 9, 2017 at 2:39

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Shubham Jain · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-09 02:40:25Z

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Element time = doc.select("li").get(1); Instead of using 1, place 0.

Element time = doc.select("li").get(0); //this will select the first li tag

answered Aug 9, 2017 at 2:40

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Duong Bui Over a year ago

I want to get time only not the whole text so i find out the correct code is time.ownText(). Anyway, thank you for your answer.

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