How to download and save a file from the internet using Scala?

Question

Basically I have a url/link to a text file online and I am trying to download it locally. For some reason, the text file that gets created/downloaded is blank. Open to any sugge

Answer 1

I know this is an old question, but I just came across a really nice way of doing this :

import sys.process._
import java.net.URL
import java.io.File

def fileDownloader(url: String, filename: String) = {
    new URL(url) #> new File(filename) !!
}

Hope this helps. Source.

You can now simply use fileDownloader function to download the files.

fileDownloader("http://ir.dcs.gla.ac.uk/resources/linguistic_utils/stop_words", "stop-words-en.txt")