Text Extraction from HTML Java

I'm working on a program that downloads HTML pages and then selects some of the information and write it to another file.

I want to extract the information which is intbetween the paragraph tags, but i can only get one line of the paragraph. My code is as follows;

FileReader fileReader = new FileReader(file);
BufferedReader buffRd = new BufferedReader(fileReader);
BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(newFile.txt));
String s;

while ((s = br.readLine()) !=null) {
    if(s.contains("<p>")) {
        try {
            out.write(s);
        } catch (IOException e) {
        }
    }
}

i was trying to add another while loop, which would tell the program to keep writing to file until the line contains the </p> tag, by saying;

while ((s = br.readLine()) !=null) {
    if(s.contains("<p>")) {
        while(!s.contains("</p>") {
            try {
                out.write(s);
            } catch (IOException e) {
            }
        }
    }
}

But this doesn't work. Could someone please help.

jsoup

Another html parser I really liked using was jsoup. You could get all the <p> elements in 2 lines of code.

Document doc = Jsoup.connect("http://en.wikipedia.org/").get();
Elements ps = doc.select("p");

Then write it out to a file in one more line

out.write(ps.text());  //it will append all of the p elements together in one long string

or if you want them on separate lines you can iterate through the elements and write them out separately.

jericho is one of several posible html parsers that could make this task both easy and safe.

JTidy can represent an HTML document (even a malformed one) as a document model, making the process of extracting the contents of a <p> tag a rather more elegant process than manually thunking through the raw text.