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I am using Yahoo's URL request ability to download stock data. I have found a java application that downloads the data every 5 seconds. I cant figure out how one would go about downloading stock data to a certain folder in ones computer while using the basic code I have used in the application. There has been other posts about how to save yahoo URL request data to a certain location but it does not use the same code format that I'm using. All ideas, source code, and links explaining how I should do this would be very helpful. Thank you for your help!

My code:

import java.awt.Desktop; import java.net.URL; public class Downloader { public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException { for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) { Thread.sleep(5000); try { Desktop.getDesktop() .browse(new URL( "http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=AAPL+GOOG+MSFT&f=nab") .toURI()); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } } }
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you could use Java's IO capabilities, Are you trying to write a GUI, if not any specific reason to use AWT's Desktop class?

Try this sample code: 

URL yahooFinance = new URL("http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=AAPL+GOOG+MSFT&f=nab"); ReadableByteChannel channel = Channels.newChannel(yahooFinance.openStream()); FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("quotes.csv"); fos.getChannel().transferFrom(channel, 0, Long.MAX_VALUE);
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You can also use org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils

java.net.URL yahooFinance = new java.net.URL("http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=AAPL+GOOG+MSFT&f=nab"); File f = new File("quotes.csv"); FileUtils.copyURLToFile(yahooFinance, f);
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