import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.net.HttpURLConnection; import java.net.URL; import java.util.Scanner; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out .println(jsonGetRequest("http://server.org/weather?q=New York&format=json")); } private static String streamToString(InputStream inputStream) { String text = new Scanner(inputStream, "UTF-8").useDelimiter("\\Z").next(); return text; } public static String jsonGetRequest(String urlQueryString) { String json = null; try { URL url = new URL(urlQueryString); HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); connection.setDoOutput(true); connection.setInstanceFollowRedirects(false); connection.setRequestMethod("GET"); connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json"); connection.setRequestProperty("charset", "utf-8"); connection.connect(); InputStream inStream = connection.getInputStream(); json = streamToString(inStream); // input stream to string } catch (IOException ex) { ex.printStackTrace(); } return json; } }