A method and an apparatus relate to the field of terminal technologies and for obtaining web content, where the method includes determining a web view control corresponding to web content displayed on a first display interface, where the first display interface is an interface displayed on a display screen of an intelligent terminal when an application runs on the intelligent terminal, registering a web content loading complete function with an operating system of the intelligent terminal, determining that the operating system invokes the web content loading complete function, where the operating system invokes the web content loading complete function after determining that the web content displayed by the web view control is loaded completely, obtaining the web content after the operating system invokes the web content loading complete function, and sending the obtained web content to the operating system.