how can i save an image from url

happyday · #1 (**permalink**) 01-12-2009, 11:46 PM

Hi everyone ,
Maybe this is a simple question for someone but i would like to know how can i save an image from a http url and save it in a jpg file somehwere in the disk, in fact will save it in database.
Can anyone tell me any example ?
Thanks in advance !

neilcoffey · #2 (**permalink**) 01-13-2009, 01:31 AM

Essentially, you:
- construct a URL with your URL
- call openConnection(), then call getInputStream() on the resulting URLConnection object
- pull out the data from the input stream as with any old input stream, probably wrapping a BufferedInputStream around it

A while ago I put up on my web site an example of reading data from a URL in Java, which covers this case of binary data, plus the case of reading character data.

poroto20 · #3 (**permalink**) 01-14-2009, 07:02 PM

You can do it only with 1 line:

Code:

FileUtils.copyURLToFile(new URL(....), new File(....));

You have to include commons-io.jar from Apache