If I'd like to retrieve the JSON data from this github link: https://github.com/EthanRBrown/rrad/blob/master/addresses-us-100.json and store it into a JSONObject, is that possible? Is there another way for me to achieve this?

I'm using org.json.simple.JSONObject

CodePudding user response：

Yes it is possible.

You might want to access raw link instead of browser friendly one - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EthanRBrown/rrad/master/addresses-us-100.json

Then you download that for example with HttpClient and then convert String into JSONObject.

CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.createDefault();
HttpGet request = new HttpGet(address);
CloseableHttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(request);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
String result = EntityUtils.toString(entity);

/* now convert String result to JSONObject */