webscrape

import java.io.IOException;
import org.jsoup.Jsoup;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Document;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Element;
import org.jsoup.select.Elements;

public class WebScrape {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
     int counter = 0;
     String currentDebt = "";
            Document doc;

            try {
                doc = Jsoup.connect("http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/").get();

                //get the items in the img and paragraph tags
                Elements img = doc.getElementsByTag("img");
                Elements paragraphs = doc.select("p");

                //look goes through imgs to find the alts for the images. (only need the first one which contains the debt)
                for (Element el : img) {
                    //only need the first alt (added a counter) there must be a better way to do this)
                    if(counter != 0) {
                        break;
                    }
                            currentDebt = el.attr("alt");  //assigns the current debt to use as a variable later on
                            counter += 1;
                }
               counter = 0; // reset counter back to 0 so we can reuse.

               //goes through the paragraphs and outputs them (placing the current debt right after the first paragraph.)
                for (Element e : paragraphs) {
                    System.out.printf(e.text());

                    if(counter == 0){
                        System.out.printf(" " + currentDebt + "\n");
                        counter += 1;
                    }
                }

            } catch (IOException e) {
                System.out.println("Error exception");
            }
     }
}