URL url = new URL("your URL");
connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
connection.connect();
InputStream stream = connection.getInputStream();
BufferedReader reader;
reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(stream));
StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
String line = "";
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
buffer.append(line);
}
//setting the json string
String finalJson = buffer.toString();
//this is your string get the pattern from buffer.
JSONArray jsonarray = new JSONArray(finalJson);