Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import org.json.JSONException; import org.json.JSONObject; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.net.HttpURLConnection; import java.net.URL; public class Main { public static JSONObject getJSONObjectFromURL(String urlString) throws IOException, JSONException { return new JSONObject(readTextFromURL(urlString)); } public static String readTextFromURL(String urlString) throws IOException { HttpURLConnection urlConnection = null; URL url = new URL(urlString); urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); urlConnection.setRequestMethod("GET"); urlConnection.setReadTimeout(10000 /* milliseconds */); urlConnection.setConnectTimeout(15000 /* milliseconds */); urlConnection.setDoOutput(true); urlConnection.connect(); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(url.openStream())); char[] buffer = new char[1024]; String jsonString = new String(); StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); String line; while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) { sb.append(line + "\n"); } br.close(); return sb.toString(); } }