How do I read / download webpage content?

Category: java.net, viewed: 5788 time(s).

You want to create a program that reada a webpage content from the internet. The example below using the URL class to create a connection to the website. When you get the connection to a website you can read the stream and write the data to a file.

package org.kodejava.example.net;

import java.io.*;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;

public class UrlReadPageDemo {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            URL url = new URL("http://www.kodejava.org");

            BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(url.openStream()));
            BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("data.html"));

            String line;
            while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                System.out.println(line);
                writer.write(line);
                writer.newLine();
            }

            reader.close();
            writer.close();
        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }  catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}
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