How to create file object from URL object image

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I need to create a File object from URL object My requirement is   I need to create a file object of a web image  say googles logo   URL url   new URL  http   google com pathtoaimage jpg    File f   create image from url object

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Since Java 7  File file   Paths get url toURI    toFile

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Use Apache Common IO s FileUtils   import org apache commons io FileUtils  FileUtils copyURLToFile url  f     The method downloads the content of url and saves it to f

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You can convert the URL to a String and use it to create a new File  e g   URL url   new URL  http   google com pathtoaimage jpg    File f   new File url getFile

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You can make use of ImageIO in order to load the image from an URL and then write it to a file  Something like this   URL url   new URL  http   google com pathtoaimage jpg    BufferedImage img   ImageIO read url   File file   new File  downloaded jpg    ImageIO write img   jpg   file     This also allows you to convert the image to some other format if needed

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In order to create a File from a HTTP URL you need to download the contents from that URL   URL url   new URL  http   www google ro logos 2011 twain11-hp-bg jpg    URLConnection connection   url openConnection    InputStream in   connection getInputStream    FileOutputStream fos   new FileOutputStream new File  downloaded jpg     byte   buf   new byte 512   while  true        int len   in read buf       if  len    -1            break            fos write buf  0  len     in close    fos flush    fos close      The downloaded file will be found at the root of your project   project  downloaded jpg

[java] How to create file object from URL object (image)

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