retrieving info from a website

[conghaile]

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

[major]

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.

[graviton]

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.