Retrofit 2 — Crawl HTML Responses with jspoon (Wikipedia Example)

Retrofit is mainly used to interact with well-defined REST APIs. Nevertheless, you can also use Retrofit to crawl HTML sources of websites. In this tutorial, you'll explore how to utilize jspoon and Retrofit to automatically extract content from Wikipedia.

In a practical example you'll understand the basic functionality of jspoon and create a small Android app to extract the important bits of a Wikipedia article. Finally, you'll automate this extraction process with a Retrofit converter.

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