How to get text of hyperlink of webview on long press in android?

Question

I am building an android application where a webpage( like "https://www.youtube.com/" ) is loaded on a webView. Now in that WebPage, there are some Hyperlink's.

Once an user long press on any of Hyperlink a list open and there are many feature's like copy link, open link in next tap and copy text. Now the issue that I am facing. I am not able to copy the text on that anchor tag where user long press.

I need when any user long press on any hyperlink and select copy text that hyperlink text should be copied. Is there any I can achieve this?

My long press return title and url.

I had refer a lot of link like see

obviously you will get an event, try getting the `value` of the event.target ? — Jeffin, Jul 18 '17 at 14:15
Right now I am not getting any event on long click of hyperlink — Hitesh Matnani, Jul 18 '17 at 14:19
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.OnLongClickListener.html this not working ? — Jeffin, Jul 18 '17 at 14:20
I am able to write OnLongClickListener on hyperlink I need a value on that event — Hitesh Matnani, Jul 18 '17 at 14:24
[this will work](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24203282/getting-link-text-of-the-link-displayed-in-webview/#59781617) — KnIfER, Jan 17 '20 at 06:49

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 11 '18 at 05:05

First, you need to listen for View.OnLongClickListener. You can do that very easily by setting a listener on the WebView. Listener has to return a Boolean, return false if you want the copy, cut and paste on text selection or return true

webView.setOnLongClickListener { view ->
    // run things on long click on any element in the webview
    return@setOnLongClickListener false
}

Then create a Handler

val handler = Handler { message ->
    val bundle = message.data

    for (key in bundle.keySet()) {
        Log.d(TAG, "KEY: $key, VALUE: ${bundle.get(key)}")
    }
    val linkText = bundle.get("title") // here is your link text   

    return@Handler true
}

Now you need to obtain the message (this code has to go inside the OnLongClickListener)

val message = handler.obtainMessage()
webView.requestFocusNodeHref(message)

Copying text to the ClipBoard got a little bit complicated.

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB) {
    val clipboardManager = context.getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE) as android.content.ClipboardManager
    val clipData = android.content.ClipData.newPlainText("text label", "text to clip")
    clipboardManager.primaryClip = clipData
} else {
    val clipboardManager = context.getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE) as android.text.ClipboardManager
    clipboardManager.text = "text to clip"
}

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 15 '17 at 07:35

Well, I'm doing the same thing today.

finally I use bellow method:

1.Saving whole html content in onPageFinished().

Use WebView.HitTestResult.getExtra() to get url.
then substring the text among href link tag.

A clunky way, hope it can help you.

How to get text of hyperlink of webview on long press in android?

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