First you need to get familiar with a HTML DOM parser in Java like JTidy . This will help you to extract the stuff you want from a HTML file. Once you have the essential stuff, you can use JDBC to put in the database .
I successfully used lobo browser API in a project that scraped HTML pages. The lobo browser project offers a browser but you can also use the API behind it very easily. It will also execute javascript and if that javascript manipulates the DOM, then that will also be reflected in the DOM when you investigate the DOM.
So, in short, the API allows you mimic a browser, you can also work with cookies and stuff.
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