Had to use HttpClient. no cookies required, just parsing for html:
private String getDownloadButtonOnly(String url){
HttpGet pageGet = new HttpGet(url);
ResponseHandler<String> handler = new ResponseHandler<String>() {
public String handleResponse(HttpResponse response) throws ClientProtocolException, IOException {
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
String html;
if (entity != null) {
html = EntityUtils.toString(entity);
return html;
} else {
return null;
}
}
};
pageHTML = null;
try {
while (pageHTML==null){
pageHTML = client.execute(pageGet, handler);
}
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("<h2>Direct Down.+?</h2>(</div>)*(.+?)<.+?>", Pattern.DOTALL);
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(pageHTML);
String displayHTML = null;
while(matcher.find()){
displayHTML = matcher.group();
}
return displayHTML;
}
@Override
public void customizeWebView(final ServiceCommunicableActivity activity, final WebView webview, final SearchResult mRom) {
mRom.setFileSize(getFileSize(mRom.getURLSuffix()));
webview.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
WebViewClient anchorWebViewClient = new WebViewClient()
{
@Override
public void onPageStarted(WebView view, String url, Bitmap favicon) {
super.onPageStarted(view, url, favicon);
String downloadButtonHTML = getDownloadButtonOnly(url);
if(downloadButtonHTML!=null && !url.equals(lastLoadedURL)){
lastLoadedURL = url;
webview.loadDataWithBaseURL(url, downloadButtonHTML, null, "utf-8", url);
}
}