How can I download and save a file from the Internet using Java?

Give Java NIO a try:

URL website = new URL("http://www.website.com/information.asp");
ReadableByteChannel rbc = Channels.newChannel(website.openStream());
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("information.html");
fos.getChannel().transferFrom(rbc, 0, Long.MAX_VALUE);

Using transferFrom() is potentially much more efficient than a simple loop that reads from the source channel and writes to this channel. Many operating systems can transfer bytes directly from the source channel into the filesystem cache without actually copying them.

Check more about it here.

Note: The third parameter in transferFrom is the maximum number of bytes to transfer. Integer.MAX_VALUE will transfer at most 2^31 bytes, Long.MAX_VALUE will allow at most 2^63 bytes (larger than any file in existence).

public void saveUrl(final String filename, final String urlString)
        throws MalformedURLException, IOException {
    BufferedInputStream in = null;
    FileOutputStream fout = null;
    try {
        in = new BufferedInputStream(new URL(urlString).openStream());
        fout = new FileOutputStream(filename);

        final byte data[] = new byte[1024];
        int count;
        while ((count = in.read(data, 0, 1024)) != -1) {
            fout.write(data, 0, count);
        }
    } finally {
        if (in != null) {
            in.close();
        }
        if (fout != null) {
            fout.close();
        }
    }
}

You'll need to handle exceptions, probably external to this method.

Downloading a file requires you to read it. Either way, you will have to go through the file in some way. Instead of line by line, you can just read it by bytes from the stream:

BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(new URL("http://www.website.com/information.asp").openStream())
byte data[] = new byte[1024];
int count;
while((count = in.read(data, 0, 1024)) != -1)
{
    out.write(data, 0, count);
}

Personally, I've found Apache's HttpClient to be more than capable of everything I've needed to do with regards to this. Here is a great tutorial on using HttpClient

Below is the sample code to download a movie from the Internet with Java code:

URL url = new
URL("http://103.66.178.220/ftp/HDD2/Hindi%20Movies/2018/Hichki%202018.mkv");
    BufferedInputStream bufferedInputStream = new  BufferedInputStream(url.openStream());
    FileOutputStream stream = new FileOutputStream("/home/sachin/Desktop/test.mkv");

    int count = 0;
    byte[] b1 = new byte[100];

    while((count = bufferedInputStream.read(b1)) != -1) {
        System.out.println("b1:" + b1 + ">>" + count + ">> KB downloaded:" + new File("/home/sachin/Desktop/test.mkv").length()/1024);
        stream.write(b1, 0, count);
    }

This can read a file on the Internet and write it into a file.

import java.net.URL;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.File;

public class Download {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
         URL url = new URL("https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/1x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png");  // Input URL
         FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(new File("out.png"));  // Output file
         out.write(url.openStream().readAllBytes());
         out.close();
    }
}

Solution on java.net.http.HttpClient using Authorization:

HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();

HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
        .GET()
        .header("Accept", "application/json")
        // .header("Authorization", "Basic ci5raG9kemhhZXY6NDdiYdfjlmNUM=") if you need
        .uri(URI.create("https://jira.google.ru/secure/attachment/234096/screenshot-1.png"))
        .build();

HttpResponse<InputStream> response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofInputStream());

try (InputStream in = response.body()) {
    Files.copy(in, Paths.get(target + "screenshot-1.png"), StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);
}

If you are behind a proxy, you can set the proxies in the Java program as below:

Properties systemSettings = System.getProperties();
systemSettings.put("proxySet", "true");
systemSettings.put("https.proxyHost", "HTTPS proxy of your org");
systemSettings.put("https.proxyPort", "8080");

If you are not behind a proxy, don't include the lines above in your code. Full working code to download a file when you are behind a proxy.

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    String url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bpjoshi/fxservice/master/src/test/java/com/bpjoshi/fxservice/api/TradeControllerTest.java";
    OutputStream outStream = null;
    URLConnection connection = null;
    InputStream is = null;
    File targetFile = null;
    URL server = null;

    // Setting up proxies
    Properties systemSettings = System.getProperties();
        systemSettings.put("proxySet", "true");
        systemSettings.put("https.proxyHost", "HTTPS proxy of my organisation");
        systemSettings.put("https.proxyPort", "8080");
        // The same way we could also set proxy for HTTP
        System.setProperty("java.net.useSystemProxies", "true");
        // Code to fetch file
    try {
        server = new URL(url);
        connection = server.openConnection();
        is = connection.getInputStream();
        byte[] buffer = new byte[is.available()];
        is.read(buffer);

        targetFile = new File("src/main/resources/targetFile.java");
        outStream = new FileOutputStream(targetFile);
        outStream.write(buffer);
    } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
        System.out.println("THE URL IS NOT CORRECT ");
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        System.out.println("I/O exception");
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    finally{
        if(outStream != null)
            outStream.close();
    }
}

First method using the new channel

ReadableByteChannel aq = Channels.newChannel(new url("https//asd/abc.txt").openStream());
FileOutputStream fileOS = new FileOutputStream("C:Users/local/abc.txt")
FileChannel writech = fileOS.getChannel();

Second method using FileUtils

FileUtils.copyURLToFile(new url("https//asd/abc.txt", new local file on system("C":/Users/system/abc.txt"));

Third method using

InputStream xy = new ("https//asd/abc.txt").openStream();

This is how we can download file by using basic Java code and other third-party libraries. These are just for quick reference. Please google with the above keywords to get detailed information and other options.