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I need to write a crawler that crawls throughout exercises available on my website (1200 exercises) and save a copy of DOM in my local as I have to use that DOM to create an exercise DVD. Can anyone please suggest a way to do it?

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    What does this have to do with testing? Nov 16, 2016 at 8:19
  • I'm using selenium webdriver to write a crawler that's it.. and trying to figure out if there is any way to do it using java/C# or any inbuilt method in selenium. Nov 16, 2016 at 11:57
  • I would look into tools like Jsoup it's a highly effective HTML parser
    – DEnumber50
    Nov 17, 2016 at 16:14

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You can try to dump page source and parse it, or dump only element source.

Page source to pageSource variable (Java):

String pageSource = driver.getPageSource();

Element source to elementSource variable (Java):

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("id"));
String elementSource = element.getAttribute("innerHTML");

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