JSoup - How to extract only the href in paragraph

Question

I have the following:

How can I extract all of the urls that contain the paragraph tag, href and contains the class "image-holder"?

I can't figure out how to add the span class

try {
    Document doc = Jsoup.connect("https://urltoextractfrom.com").get();
    Elements selections = doc.select("p a[href]");
    for (Element e : selections) {
        System.out.println(e);
    }
} catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

user_153184 · Answer

If I have understood what you want to extract correctly, you can use this selector:

p a:has(span.image-holder)

That finds all the a elements which descend from a p element, and which contain a span with class image-holder set.

So in code:

Document document = Jsoup.parse(html);
Elements links = document.select("p a:has(span.image-holder)");
List urls = links.eachAttr("href");

You can use the try.jsoup REPL to quickly iterate on selectors. https://try.jsoup.org/~wvd2VHaJtnr10qEiLS9g_-E6UA8

(If there's content this selects that you don't want to, you can clarify that in your question with examples.)

user_11110509 · Answer

If someone has a better answer please post it but I got this working after 3 hours of trying...

try {
            Document doc = Jsoup.connect("https://urltoextractfrom.com").get();
            Elements selections = doc.select("p a[href]");
            for (Element e : selections) {
                Elements elements2 = e.select("span[class=image-holder]");
                if(elements2.attr("class").equals("image-holder")){
                    System.out.println(e.attr("href"));
                }
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

JSoup - How to extract only the href in paragraph

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