Parsing HTML from InputStream

[HubKing]

I have browsed the documentation, but I could only find examples from loading a URL or a File. What about InputStream? How can I load HTML from an InputStream?

[christian-draeger]

Hey,
Passing inputstream is not build-in right now (but a good idea, we should implement that).

But since you can parse from string as mentioned here in the readme, you could just convert your inputstream to a string as a workaround.

Here is a little example how to convert inputstream to string and parse with skrapeit:

// assuming you have a variable called 'inputStream' 
val value: String = inputStream.bufferedReader().use(BufferedReader::readText)

htmlDocument(value) {
// do stuff with the parsed html like selecting elements here 
} 

I opened issue #178 to implement InputStream support.

If you like to, PRs are always welcome (and it should be easy to implement), otherwise it will maybe take a little while since someone picks it or I find time

[christian-draeger]

parsing direclty from InputStream has been added by #178 and will be part of next release (1.2.0)