How do you Programmatically Download a Webpage in Java

Question

I would like to be able to fetch a web page\'s html and save it to a String, so I can do some processing on it. Also, how could I handle various types of compr

Answer 1

All the above mentioned approaches do not download the web page text as it looks in the browser. these days a lot of data is loaded into browsers through scripts in html pages. none of above mentioned techniques supports scripts, they just downloads the html text only. HTMLUNIT supports the javascripts. so if you are looking to download the web page text as it looks in the browser then you should use HTMLUNIT.