Jsoup Getting started with Jsoup Extract full URL from partial HTML

Example

Selecting only the attribute value of a link:href will return the relative URL.

   String bodyFragment = 
          "<div><a href=\"/documentation\">Stack Overflow Documentation</a></div>";


    Document doc = Jsoup.parseBodyFragment(bodyFragment);
    String link = doc
            .select("div > a")
            .first()
            .attr("href");
    
    System.out.println(link);

Output

/documentation

---

By passing the base URI into the parse method and using the absUrl method instead of attr, we can extract the full URL.

    Document doc = Jsoup.parseBodyFragment(bodyFragment, "http://stackoverflow.com");
    
    String link = doc
                .select("div > a")
                .first()
                .absUrl("href");
    
    System.out.println(link);

Output

http://stackoverflow.com/documentation