Created WebScrapper class which grabs contents of a website as a string.

src/main/java/net/jrtechs/www/WebScraper.java

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 package net.jrtechs.www;
 
+import javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection;
+import java.io.*;
+import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
+import java.net.URL;
+
+/**
+ * Class which retrieves contents of a website as html
+ *
+ * @author Jeffery Russell 5-24-17
+ */
 public class WebScraper
 {
+    /**
+     * Grabs the contents of a website as a string
+     *
+     * @param link to open
+     * @return source code of website as a single string
+     */
+    public static String getWebsite(String link)
+    {
+        try
+        {
+            URL url = new URL(link);
+
+            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(
+                    new InputStreamReader(url.openStream())
+            );
+            return WebScraper.getBufferedReaderData(br);
+        }
+        catch (Exception e)
+        {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        }
+        return "";
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Gets contents of a post request sent to a web server
+     *
+     * @param link to open
+     * @param postData to send
+     * @return source code of website as a string
+     */
+    public static String getPostResponse(String link, String postData)
+    {
+        try
+        {
+            URL url = new URL(link);
+            HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpsURLConnection)url.openConnection();
+            conn.setDoOutput(true);
+            conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
+
+            OutputStream os = conn.getOutputStream();
+            os.write(postData.getBytes());
+            os.flush();
+
+            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(
+                    new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream())
+            );
+            return WebScraper.getBufferedReaderData(br);
+        }
+        catch(Exception ex)
+        {
+            ex.printStackTrace();
+        }
+
+        return "";
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Helper method for getPostResponse() and getWebsite()
+     * Slams all contents of a buffered reader into a single string.
+     *
+     * @param br
+     * @return contents of buffered reader
+     * @throws IOException -- with br.readLine()
+     */
+    private static String getBufferedReaderData(BufferedReader br)
+            throws IOException
+    {
+        String html = "";
+        String line;
+        while((line = br.readLine()) !=null)
+        {
+            html += line;
+        }
+        return html;
+    }
 
 
 }