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

If you are behind a proxy, you can set the proxies in java program as below:

        Properties systemSettings = System.getProperties();
        systemSettings.put("proxySet", "true");
        systemSettings.put("https.proxyHost", "https proxy of your org");
        systemSettings.put("https.proxyPort", "8080");

If you are not behind a proxy, don't include the lines above in your code. Full working code to download a file when you are behind a proxy.

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        String url="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bpjoshi/fxservice/master/src/test/java/com/bpjoshi/fxservice/api/TradeControllerTest.java";
        OutputStream outStream=null;
        URLConnection connection=null;
        InputStream is=null;
        File targetFile=null;
        URL server=null;
        //Setting up proxies
        Properties systemSettings = System.getProperties();
            systemSettings.put("proxySet", "true");
            systemSettings.put("https.proxyHost", "https proxy of my organisation");
            systemSettings.put("https.proxyPort", "8080");
            //The same way we could also set proxy for http
            System.setProperty("java.net.useSystemProxies", "true");
            //code to fetch file
        try {
            server=new URL(url);
            connection = server.openConnection();
            is = connection.getInputStream();
            byte[] buffer = new byte[is.available()];
            is.read(buffer);

                targetFile = new File("src/main/resources/targetFile.java");
                outStream = new FileOutputStream(targetFile);
                outStream.write(buffer);
        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
            System.out.println("THE URL IS NOT CORRECT ");
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.out.println("Io exception");
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        finally{
            if(outStream!=null) outStream.close();
        }
    }