Re: [Htmlunit-user] How to load images

[Tom A. <tom...@e2...>]

On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Jack Smith wrote:

> Hello.  Im new to htmlunit, can you help me with one issue, please ?
>
> If i do this:
>
>     WebClient webClient = new WebClient(BrowserVersion.FIREFOX_2);
>     HtmlPage page = webClient.getPage(someurl);
>
> Page is loaded fine, but without images. What is the best way to make
> htmlunit load all images too, not just html and js ?

Funnily enough, i was loading images with HtmlUnit just this afternoon.

I don't know any way to force HtmlUnit to load all images. However, 
loading images is easy enough - you need to get hold of an HtmlImage 
element and call its getImageReader method. That returns a 
javax.imageio.ImageReader with which you can read the contents of the 
image, get its metadata, etc. If you want to go through all the images in 
the page, have a crack at:

page.getByXPath("//img");

There might be a more elegant way to do it than that, but i tend to just 
use XPath for everything!

tom

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