How to fetch live data from website ?

you need a database so the web site works and you can view the data remotely

Do you use any api

that depends on your setup I expect it will be linux and you can install mysql its usually installed anyway although it can be installed in windows

for remote view
see
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Servers/Database-Utils/Remote-MySQL-Viewer.shtml

you may have to use jTidy to purify HTML
http://jtidy.sourceforge.net/

@gurvinder372
>>>you can invoke that URL using HTTPURLConnection

Is not that involve a  loop ?  something like this ...

while(true)
{
//HTTPURLConnection ...get data from site
//parse and get  required data
  Thread.sleep(30 secs)
}


OR   there  is some other smart and better approach exists I'm missing here ?


I  know a good package which  is capable of doing this kind of work neatly.  
http://httpunit.sourceforge.net/doc/faq.html

But I'm not sure whether you'll be using a loop to hit server every 30 secs interval to fetch latest updates  or  there is  better  a way ?


Please post you  comments

smarter approach would be to use web-services exposed by that site to use their data.

for example, google services, or facebook services, or twitter services

This is a simple working example of implementation of getting RSS feed form
the list of sites

It uses ROME API, let me find the appropriate link

import java.io.*;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;

import com.sun.syndication.feed.synd.SyndEntry;
import com.sun.syndication.feed.synd.SyndFeed;
import com.sun.syndication.io.SyndFeedInput;
import com.sun.syndication.io.XmlReader;

public class Reader {

 static String [] urls =  {"http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss", "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/World.xml",
 "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/US.xml","http://newsrack.in/crawled.feeds/frontline.rss.xml"
};
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {                              

//URL url = new URL("http://viralpatel.net/blogs/feed");

  //  URL url = new URL("http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss");
XmlReader reader = null;

try {

    while(true) {

long now = (new java.util.Date()).getTime();

    System.out.println("checking at " + (new Date(now)).toString());    
long week_before = now - (24L*3600L*7L*1000L);


ArrayList list = new ArrayList();

DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(new FileInputStream("C:\\temp\\test\\visited.txt"));
PrintStream psout = new PrintStream(new FileOutputStream("C:\\temp\\test\\visited1.txt"));

String buff = null;

while((buff=in.readLine()) != null){
StringTokenizer t = new StringTokenizer(buff);
String ttime = t.nextToken();
if(Long.parseLong(ttime) <week_before)continue;
String llink = t.nextToken().trim();
list.add(llink);
psout.println(ttime + " " + llink);

}

          for (int jj=0; jj<urls.length; jj++){
            URL  url = new URL(urls[jj]);
reader = new XmlReader(url);
SyndFeed feed = new SyndFeedInput().build(reader);
//System.out.println("Feed Title: "+ feed.getAuthor());

for (Iterator i = feed.getEntries().iterator(); i.hasNext();) {
SyndEntry entry = (SyndEntry) i.next();
    String title = entry.getTitle();
     String link = entry.getUri().trim();
     if(list.contains(link))continue;
     Date date = entry.getPublishedDate();
// Problem here -->         **     SyndEntry source = item.getSource();
     String description;
     if (entry.getDescription()== null){
       description = "";
     } else {
       description = entry.getDescription().getValue();
     }
     String cleanDescription = description.replaceAll("\\<.*?>","").replaceAll("\\s+", " ");
        System.out.println(title);
System.out.println(link);
    System.out.println(cleanDescription);



//System.out.println(entry.getTitle());
//System.out.println(entry.getContents());
    System.out.println("");
     System.out.println("");
     psout.println(now + " " + link);
}

}

in.close();
psout.close();
File f0 = new File("C:\\temp\\test\\visited.txt");
File f1 = new File("C:\\temp\\test\\visited1.txt");
f0.delete();
f1.renameTo(f0);

Thread.currentThread().sleep(600000);

    }


} finally {
if (reader != null)
reader.close();
}
}
}
                                            

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this is the link to ROME


http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/maven2/rome/rome/0.9/rome-0.9.jar