Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; //License from project: Apache License import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.net.HttpURLConnection; import java.net.URL; public class Main { /** * This method fetches data from a given url * * @param strUrl Url from which the data will be fetched * @return A String representing the resource obtained in the connection * @throws IOException If something went wrong with the connection */ public static String getDataFromUrl(String strUrl) throws IOException { InputStream iStream; HttpURLConnection urlConnection; URL url = new URL(strUrl); // Creating an http connection to communicate with url urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); // Connecting to url urlConnection.connect(); // Reading data from url iStream = urlConnection.getInputStream(); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(iStream)); StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); String line; while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) { sb.append(line); } br.close(); iStream.close(); urlConnection.disconnect(); return sb.toString(); } }