How to download and save a file from Internet using Java?

Question

There is an online file (such as http://www.example.com/information.asp) I need to grab and save to a directory. I know there are several methods for grabbing a

Answer 1

It's an old question but here is a concise, readable, JDK-only solution with properly closed resources:

import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.URI;
import java.nio.file.Files; 
import java.nio.file.Paths;

// ...

public static void download(String url, String fileName) throws Exception {
    try (InputStream in = URI.create(url).toURL().openStream()) {
        Files.copy(in, Paths.get(fileName));
    }
}

Two lines of code and no dependencies.