Issues reading from TBA API with Java

Technical Programming
1

I’ve been trying to run this Java code to pull the data from the TBA API:

try {
			URL url = new URL("https://thebluealliance.com/api/v2/event/2017cama/stats?X-TBA-App-Id=frc5817:eventanalyzer:v02");
			HttpURLConnection httpcon = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); 
			httpcon.addRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0");
			InputStream is = httpcon.getInputStream();
			BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
			
			String line = null;
	
	        // read each line and write to System.out
	        while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
	            System.out.println(line);
	        }
		} catch(Exception e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}

And it prints this out in the console:

<HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<TITLE>301 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
<H1>301 Moved</H1>
The document has moved
<A HREF="https://www.thebluealliance.com/api/v2/event/2017cama/stats?X-TBA-App-Id=frc5817:eventanalyzer:v02">here</A>.
</BODY></HTML>

But when I follow the exact same link in Chrome, it outputs the JSON data fine. I feel like there is some simple thing I’m missing. Can anyone help me out?

2

These two URLs are different (no “www.” vs having “www.”). Chrome will automatically follow the 301, it seems like Java does not. Have you tried using the “www.” URL?

3

Thanks! I knew it was something silly like that but I couldn’t figure it out for the life of me. Guess URL autofill has made me lazy :smiley:

4

You are doing it already, but in case someone finds this in a search later, make sure you use the https URL as well.

5

This seems like an interesting API to suit your needs