Reading Content in Java from URL

You may sometimes need to read the HTML content of the web page from the URL, and this Java program can be used to do this.

In this Java example, we are reading HTML from example.com and printing on screen.

Example:

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;

public class ParseHTML {
 public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            String parseLine; /* variable definition */
                        /* create objects */
            URL URL = new URL("http://www.example.com/"); 
            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(URL.openStream()));

            while ((parseLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
                /* read each line */
                System.out.println(parseLine);
            }
            br.close();

        } catch (MalformedURLException me) {
            System.out.println(me);

        } catch (IOException ioe) {
            System.out.println(ioe);
        }
    }//class end
}

Program Output:

<!doctype html> <html> <head> <title>Example Domain</title> <meta charset="utf-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /> <style type="text/css"> body { background-color: #f0f0f2; margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; } div { width: 600px; margin: 5em auto; padding: 50px; background-color: #fff; border-radius: 1em; } a:link, a:visited { color: #38488f; text-decoration: none; } @media (max-width: 700px) { body { background-color: #fff; } div { width: auto; margin: 0 auto; border-radius: 0; padding: 1em; } } </style> </head> <body> <div> <h1>Example Domain</h1> <p>This domain is established to be used for illustrative examples in documents. You may use this domain in examples without prior coordination or asking for permission.</p> <p><a href="http://www.iana.org/domains/example">More information...</a></p> </div> </body> </html>