Get the inputstream from a given downloadable link in java

Asked Jun 04 '18 at 12:20

Active Jun 04 '18 at 13:03

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I have to convert a file into a string where the file should be obtained from the given downloadable url link

String result = "";
        try 
        {
            URL url = new URL(downloadablelink);
            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(url.openStream()));
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            String line = br.readLine();
            while (line != null) 
            {
                sb.append(line);
                line = br.readLine();
            }
            result = sb.toString();
        } catch(Exception e) {}

I have tried this but I get the html content of the page as the result. what should I do?

edited Jun 04 '18 at 13:03

Abhijith S

asked Jun 04 '18 at 12:20

santhosh rocks

Is this URL a direct download link to your file or to the HTML page containing the download link? If you do this in the browser do you have to login before you can download the file? – vanje Jun 04 '18 at 13:10
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Did you read the resulting HTML? Maybe this is some kind of error message. – vanje Jun 04 '18 at 13:12
The url is a direct download link to the file The html was not a error message – santhosh rocks Jun 04 '18 at 13:16
url.openstream does url.openConnection().getInputStream() – santhosh rocks Jun 04 '18 at 13:23
Hey check this is helpful for you: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4328733/7020538 – Abhijith S Jun 04 '18 at 14:06

Get the inputstream from a given downloadable link in java

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