Hide elements in UIWebView?

[Chris230291]

Hello. I'm new to coding and I'm learning as I go along.

I have set up a UIWebView that links to a site (not owned by me). What I would like to do is load only part of the site. Can this be done? If I look at the website source I can see the ID's of the sections I would like to load. Is this enough to accomplish what I want to do?

If this is possible would it mess up the formatting of the site? Would I be left with "empty" spaces where objects would normally be?

Maybe I could accomplish this by using iframes or an equivalent?

Any help is appreciated,
Chris.

 

[Nethfel]

You could always take the option of using a NSURLSession, downloading the web content, parse it to just include the block on content you want, add appropriate HTML tags and CSS formatting information required and feed that to your UIWebView.

Just be careful on "borrowing" data from a third party site if you plan on distributing the app - many sites don't take kindly to someone hijacking their data

 

[Chris230291]

You could always take the option of using a NSURLSession, downloading the web content, parse it to just include the block on content you want, add appropriate HTML tags and CSS formatting information required and feed that to your UIWebView.

Just be careful on "borrowing" data from a third party site if you plan on distributing the app - many sites don't take kindly to someone hijacking their data

Thanks for the reply!

I will look into NSURLSessions and figure out how they work.

Yes I understand the owners of some sites might not like this, but the site I'm borrowing from is badly optimised for iOS. I'm just trying to make it more user friendly

I dont have a developer account so it will only be available (free of charge) to the Jailbreak community.

Cheers.
Chris.