Java URL Load readContentsToList(URL url)

Description

Reads the contents of the website at the specified URL

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
url	- The URL of the website to read from

Exception

Parameter	Description
IOException	If there's an error while reading from the website

Return

A string list with the contents of the read website

Declaration

public static List<String> readContentsToList(URL url) throws IOException 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*******************************************************************************
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 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the GNU Public License v3.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
 ******************************************************************************/

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.LineNumberReader;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Reads the contents of the website at the specified URL
     * 
     * @param url - The URL of the website to read from
     * 
     * @return A string list with the contents of the read website
     * @throws IOException If there's an error while reading from the website
     */
    public static List<String> readContentsToList(URL url) throws IOException {
        LineNumberReader reader = new LineNumberReader(new InputStreamReader(url.openStream()));
        List<String> lines = new ArrayList<String>();
        String line;
        while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null)
            lines.add(line);
        reader.close();
        return lines;
    }
}

Related

1. readBytesFromUrl(URL url)
2. readContent(URL url)
3. readContentFromFile(URL u, String encoding)
4. readContents(URL url)
5. readContentsToArray(URL url)
6. readContentsToString(URL url)
7. readData(String url)
8. readFile(URL file)
9. readFile(URL url)