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

Here is a naive implementation by scala.io.Source.fromURL and java.io.FileWriter

def downloadFile(token: String, fileToDownload: String) {
  try {
    val src = scala.io.Source.fromURL("http://randomwebsite.com/docs?t=" + token + "&p=tsr%2F" + fileToDownload)
    val out = new java.io.FileWriter("src/test/resources/testingUpload1.txt")
    out.write(src.mkString)
    out.close
  } catch {
    case e: java.io.IOException => "error occured"
  }
}

Your code works for me... There are other possibilities that make empty file.