Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; //License from project: Open Source License import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.net.HttpURLConnection; import java.net.MalformedURLException; import java.net.URL; public class Main { private final static int TIMEOUT_CONNECTION = 5000; private final static int TIMEOUT_READ = 10000; public static String callJsonAPI(String urlString) { // Use HttpURLConnection as per Android 6.0 spec, instead of less efficient HttpClient HttpURLConnection urlConnection = null; StringBuilder jsonResult = new StringBuilder(); try { URL url = new URL(urlString); urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); urlConnection.setRequestMethod("GET"); urlConnection.setUseCaches(false); urlConnection.setConnectTimeout(TIMEOUT_CONNECTION); urlConnection.setReadTimeout(TIMEOUT_READ); urlConnection.connect(); int status = urlConnection.getResponseCode(); switch (status) { case 200: case 201: BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(urlConnection.getInputStream())); String line; while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) { jsonResult.append(line).append("\n"); } br.close(); } } catch (MalformedURLException e) { System.err.print(e.getMessage()); return e.getMessage(); } catch (IOException e) { System.err.print(e.getMessage()); return e.getMessage(); } finally { if (urlConnection != null) { try { urlConnection.disconnect(); } catch (Exception e) { System.err.print(e.getMessage()); } } } return jsonResult.toString(); } }