Re: Getting text from a URL

From:

"Andrew Thompson" <andrewthommo@gmail.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

22 Oct 2006 02:41:54 -0700

Message-ID:

<1161510114.762371.280220@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

mic123@gmail.com wrote:

I am trying to read the text of a website using a URL object and a data
stream
It works well on CNN.com for example, but doesn't work well on:
http://www.collegehumor.com:80/video:1674301

This source loads and displays (crudely) the web page
at that address.

<sscce>
import javax.swing.*;
import java.net.URL;

public class ShowURL {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    String address = null;
    if (args.length==0) {
      address = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "URL?");
    } else {
      address = args[0];
    }
    JEditorPane jep = null;
    try {
      URL url = new URL(address);
      jep = new JEditorPane(url);
    } catch(Exception e) {
      jep = new JEditorPane();
      jep.setText( e.toString() );
    }
    JScrollPane jsp = new JScrollPane(jep);
    jsp.setPreferredSize(new java.awt.Dimension(400,300));
    JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, jsp);
  }
}
</sscce>

...so the data is readable, and it is a web-page.

Andrew T.