The invention discloses a page content obtaining method and device and belongs to the technical field of Internet. When designated operation is received based on an application, a uniform resource locator (URL) link of the application in the designated time period which is before the current time and closest to the current time is obtained, the page content corresponding to the URL link is obtained, the obtained page content is cached to the local, when a browse command is received based on the URL link, the page content corresponding to the URL link stored in the local is displayed in a current display interface of the application, in other words, when the designed operation is received based on the application, the page content corresponding to the URL link of the application is loaded automatically, the loaded page content is stored to the local, when a user wants to check the page content corresponding to the URL link, a terminal obtains the page content corresponding to the URL link from the local, and in this way, even if Internet signals are poor, the terminal can still smoothly display the page content corresponding to the URL link. The display speed is raised.