retrieving info from a website

does anybody know how i would go about retrieving info from a website, using java, then placing it in a database. i can make a mock website for the project.

wud the using the URLReader class be going in the right direction

public class URLReader {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
URL yahoo = new URL("http://www.yahoo.com/");
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(
yahoo.openStream()));

String inputLine;

while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
System.out.println(inputLine);

in.close();
}
}

any help wu be much appreciated

Hi, the following link has a download on how to read data from a web site.
http://www.java.codeyourself.com/Download.php?ID=37

this next link, has a few downloads on how to get connected to a database. You need to know some SQL to be able to insert the data from the web site into your database

http://www.java.codeyourself.com/Cat...egory=Database

Hope it helps.

Well, when you use the url class you will have to handle the http protocol headers.
An easier approach is to use the httpclient by apache, which supports a lot of features, like https, proxies, and so on. there are also several examples of usage on the page.