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How can I get the HTML source code of a UIWebView and store it in NSString?

Jagat Dave
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Wasim A.
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  • what actually you want to ask? – Swastik Mar 02 '11 at 12:12
  • i have open google.com in my uiwebview and now i want to get html source code of website opened in uiwebview ... basically i required value of action in
    – Wasim A. Mar 02 '11 at 12:15
  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/992348/reading-html-content-from-a-uiwebview – rptwsthi Jun 22 '13 at 06:24
  • there is a difference between two questions, my question was how to read HTML from UIWebView where HTML is preloaded where as other question is reading HTML before loaded into WebView – Wasim A. Jun 23 '13 at 15:36

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If you want the source code of an already loaded webview, you can get it like this:

    NSString *yourHTMLSourceCodeString = [webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"document.body.innerHTML"];

Update: method above works most of the time. But I recently was in a situation where I needed all the code source, not just the body.

Here is a better way: 

    NSString *yourHTMLSourceCodeString = [webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"document.documentElement.outerHTML"];

(It won't reload the webview).

Guillaume
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I am not sure that what exactly you need..........but as per your last comment you will get that html data from google like this...

     NSData *companyData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.google.com"]];
     NSString *responseString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:companyData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

    self.yourTextView.text = responseString; // response string contains that data
    [companyData release];

Good Luck!

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    I suppose the problem here is that using `dataWithContentsOfURL:` requires the web page data to be retrieved again, rather than being extracted from the already loaded UIWebView –  Apr 23 '12 at 09:17