Gain URL from google image search in android

I am trying to be able to view the source code of a webpage after being given a URL in order to parse the text for a certain string which represents and image url.

I found this post which is pretty much what I am after trying to do but can't get it working:

Post

This is my code below.

public String fetchImage() throws ClientProtocolException, IOException {
        HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
        HttpGet request = new HttpGet("www.google.co.uk/i开发者_JAVA百科mages?q=songbird+oasis");
        HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);

        String html = "";
        InputStream in = response.getEntity().getContent();
        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
        StringBuilder str = new StringBuilder();
        String line = null;
        while((line = reader.readLine()) != null)
        {
            str.append(line);
        }
        in.close();
        html = str.toString();
        return html;
    }

but for some reason it just does not work. It forces me to use a try catch statement in calling the method. Once this works I think it will simple from here using regex to find the string "href="/imgres?imgurl=........jpg" to find the url of a jpg image to then be shown in an image view.

Please tell me if i'm going at this all wrong.

First, Google has a search API, which will be a better solution than the scraping you are going through, since the API will be reliable, and your solution will not be.

Second, use the BasicResponseHandler pattern for string responses, as it is much simpler.

Third, saying something "just does not work" is a pretty useless description for a support site like this one. If it crashes, as kgiannakakis pointed out, you will have an exception. Use adb logcat, DDMS, or the DDMS perspective in Eclipse to examine the stack trace and find out what the exception is. That will give you some clues for how to solve whatever problem you have.