URL to String 

Apache Commons IO is a java library with simple IO utilities and filters. This requires the library commons-io-2.1.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows using IOUtils.toString() API.

File Name  :   com/bethecoder/tutorials/commons_io/tests/URLToString.java  Author  :   Sudhakar KV Email  :   [email protected]

package com.bethecoder.tutorials.commons_io.tests; import java.io.IOException; import java.net.URL; import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils; public class URLToString {   /**    * @param args    * @throws IOException     */   public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {     URL url = new URL("http://finance.google.com/finance/info?client=ig&q=NASDAQ:MSFT");     String content = IOUtils.toString(url);     System.out.println(content);   } }

// [
{
"id": "358464"
,"t" : "MSFT"
,"e" : "NASDAQ"
,"l" : "24.79"
,"l_cur" : "24.79"
,"s": "1"
,"ltt":"4:00PM EST"
,"lt" : "Nov 22, 4:00PM EST"
,"c" : "-0.21"
,"cp" : "-0.84"
,"ccol" : "chr"
,"el": "24.52"
,"el_cur": "24.52"
,"elt" : "Nov 23, 4:25AM EST"
,"ec" : "-0.27"
,"ecp" : "-1.09"
,"eccol" : "chr"
,"div" : "0.20"
,"yld" : "3.23"
}
]