Retreiving HTML data from an URL

Question

It is possible to get HTML data (HTML source) from Java (text), and store them in a string ? Using java application (no gui).

Answer 1

import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
public class GetHTML
     public static void main(String[] args)
                if (args.length < 1)
               System.out.println("Usage: <URL>");
               return;
                try{
          URL url = new URL(args[0]);
                BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(url.openStream()));
                String line = "";
                while ((line = in.readLine()) != null)
                    System.out.println(line);
                }catch(MalformedURLException mue){
                    System.err.println("Bad URL: " + mue);
                    return;
                catch(IOException ioe){