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Yosi199
Yosi199

Reputation: 1804

surf to a web page through console in java

I wonder is it possible to write a console application that will surf to a web page without opening a browser? I want to check if a web page is alive (and check for an HTML string in it), but I don't want to open a web browser every time for this since I have a great number of web pages to check. What is the best way to go about this? I have some knowledge in java but not so much in networking with java.

any help or direction will be greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 522

Answers (2)

Matthew Cline
Matthew Cline

Reputation: 2376

You want java.net.URL.getConnection():

InputStream is = null;
try{
    URL page = new URL("http://example.com/");
    URLConnection connection = page.openConnection();
    is = connection.getInputStream();
}
catch(MalformedURLException e)
{
    // ....
}
catch(IOException e)
{
    // Couldn't connect to website
}
// do something with input stream

Upvotes: 3

Gyula
Gyula

Reputation: 11

You might give this short tutorial a try: http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/networking/urls/readingURL.html

Also you will find more code samples here: http://www.exampledepot.com/egs/java.net/pkg.html

Upvotes: 1

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