parse a webpage into a single String . This can be used in future for manipulating json data .

GetWebPageAsString.java

package mygists;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.URL;


public class GetWebPageAsString {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
	  String str =   getStringFromWeb("http://localhost:8080/");
	  System.out.println(str);
	  
	  
	  
	}

	
	 public static String getStringFromWeb(String urladdress)     {		
		 String res = new String();		 
	    try {	     
	    	URL url;
		    InputStream is = null;
		    BufferedReader br;
		    String line;
	        url = new URL(urladdress);
	        is = url.openStream();  // throws an IOException
	        br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
	        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
	         line = br.readLine();
	         
	        while ( line != null) {
	        	sb.append(line);
	        	line = br.readLine();
	        	
	        }
	        
	        res =  sb.toString();
	        
	       
	        
	    } catch(Exception e)
	    {
	    	System.out.println(e);
	    }
		return res ;
		
	}


}