Downloading a website to a string

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Having done some basic tutorials, I started making my first real android app in eclipse. I want this app to check if the text in an EditText matches the text on a website (this one: http://www.augustinianum.eu/roosterwijzigingen/14062012.pdf (it contains my school's schedule changes)). I've found out how to make the app check if the text in the EditText matches a string (with the method contains()), so now the only thing I need to do is to download all of the text of that website to a string. But I have no idea how to. Or is there maybe a method which I can check with if a website contains a certain word without downloading the website's text to a string. Thank You! (BTW I'm not English so plz forgive me if I've made some language-related mistakes.) @androider I can't post my code in the comment box so here it is: ``` package me.moop.mytwitter; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.net.MalformedURLException; import jav…

Accepted Answer

You can get the text using InputStream Reader like this.

```
try 
{
    URL url = new URL("http://yourwebpage.com");
    // Read all the text returned by the server
    BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(url.openStream()));
    String str;
    while ((str = in.readLine()) != null) 
    {
     // str is one line of text; readLine() strips the newline character(s)
     // You can use the contain method here.
       if(str.contains(editText.getText().toString))
        {
          You can perform your logic here!!!!!         
        }
    }
    in.close();
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
} catch (IOException e) {
}
```

Also add an additional permission in your apps Manifest file:

```
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET/>   
```

//============================EDIT================================//

```
if (group.length() > 0)
  {
            mProgressDialog = new ProgressDialog(this);
            mProgressDialog.setMessage("Bezig met checken voor roosterwijzigingen...");
            mProgressDialog.show();
            try 
            {
                URL url = new URL("http://www.augustinianum.eu/roosterwijzigingen/14062012.pdf");
                BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(url.openStream()));
                String str;
                while ((str = in.readLine()) != null){

if(str.contains(mEtxtGroup.getText().toString())){

if(mProgressDialog.isShowing())
                     { 
                        mProgressDialog.dismiss(); 
                     }

Toast.makeText(this, "U hebt een roosterwijziging.", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                     break;
                   }
                }
                in.close();
            } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
                Toast.makeText(this, "Er is een fout opgetreden, probeer opniew.", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                Toast.makeText(this, "Er is een fout opgetreden, probeer opniew.", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            }

if(mProgressDialog.isShowing())
                     { 
                        mProgressDialog.dismiss(); 
                     }
        }
        else{
            Toast.makeText(this, "Voer een klas in", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        }
```

Downloading a website to a string

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