Q:

How to get the main content of an article from HTML using boilerplate? 

I am trying to get the main content of an article from an HTML using boilerpipe code. 
Downloaded the latest jars from here. 
I am trying to use the following code:
String article = "";
try {
    article = ArticleExtractor. INSTANCE.getText(url);   
    System.out.println("Article ++++ >>" + article);    
} catch (BoilerpipeProcessingException e) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    e.printStackTrace();
}

But this returns an empty string for every URL.  Can anyone help me on this? 

A:

Have you tried to pass the HTML itself instead of the url?  Or maybe there is a problem with the way your url strings are formatted.