This example shows how to fix the Jsoup Connection error: org.jsoup.UnsupportedMimeTypeException error while using the Jsoup.
How to fix Connection error: org.jsoup.UnsupportedMimeTypeException?
By default, Jsoup supports below given content types.
1) text/*
2) application/xml
3) application/xml+xhtml
If you are trying to parse any page whose content type is not one of the above content types, Jsoup throws “Connection error: org.jsoup.UnsupportedMimeTypeException” exception as given below.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 | package com.javacodeexamples.libraries.jsoup; import java.io.IOException; import org.jsoup.Jsoup; import org.jsoup.nodes.Document; public class JsoupContentTypeExample { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { try{ Document document = Jsoup.connect("http://ip.jsontest.com/").get(); }catch(IOException ioe){ ioe.printStackTrace(); } } } |
Output
1 2 3 4 5 6 | org.jsoup.UnsupportedMimeTypeException: Unhandled content type. Must be text/*, application/xml, or application/xhtml+xml. Mimetype=application/json; charset=ISO-8859-1, URL=http://headers.jsontest.com/ at org.jsoup.helper.HttpConnection$Response.execute(HttpConnection.java:547) at org.jsoup.helper.HttpConnection$Response.execute(HttpConnection.java:493) at org.jsoup.helper.HttpConnection.execute(HttpConnection.java:205) at org.jsoup.helper.HttpConnection.get(HttpConnection.java:194) at com.javacodeexamples.libraries.jsoup.JsoupContentTypeExample.main(JsoupContentTypeExample.java:14) |
We have used the JSON test API hosted at http://ip.jsontest.com/ which gives the user’s IP address in JSON format. The content-type returned by the API is “application/json” which is not supported by Jsoup by default, hence the exception “org.jsoup.UnsupportedMimeTypeException: Unhandled content type”.
How to resolve it?
You can use ignoreContentType method of Connection class to ignore the content type returned by the webpage.
1 | Connection ignoreContentType(boolean ignore) |
Passing true in the method ignores the document’s content type while parsing the response.
Example
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 | package com.javacodeexamples.libraries.jsoup; import java.io.IOException; import org.jsoup.Jsoup; import org.jsoup.nodes.Document; public class JsoupContentTypeExample { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { try{ Document document = Jsoup.connect("http://ip.jsontest.com/") .ignoreContentType(true) .get(); System.out.println(document.text()); }catch(IOException ioe){ ioe.printStackTrace(); } } } |
Output
1 | {"ip": "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"} |
This example is a part of the Jsoup tutorial with examples.
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respected sir
can you make a java program to search a query and returns the URL as a result like google search engine ??
please send me the code in my email : [email protected]
I can’t send you the code. But if you have a requirement, have a look at Apache Solr.