Using Java to pull data from a webpage?

Question

I\'m attempting to make my first program in Java. The goal is to write a program that browses to a website and downloads a file for me. However, I don\'t know how to use Jav

Answer 1

Here's my solution using URL and try with resources phrase to catch the exceptions.

/**
 * Created by mona on 5/27/16.
 */
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
public class ReadFromWeb {
    public static void readFromWeb(String webURL) throws IOException {
        URL url = new URL(webURL);
        InputStream is =  url.openStream();
        try( BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is))) {
            String line;
            while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
                System.out.println(line);
            }
        }
        catch (MalformedURLException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            throw new MalformedURLException("URL is malformed!!");
        }
        catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            throw new IOException();
        }

    }
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        String url = "https://madison.craigslist.org/search/sub";
        readFromWeb(url);
    }

}

You could additionally save it to file based on your needs or parse it using XML or HTML libraries.