Get file name from URL

Question

In Java, given a java.net.URL or a String in the form of http://www.example.com/some/path/to/a/file.xml , what is the easiest way to get the file name, minus the extension? So, in this example, I'm looking for something that returns "file".

I can think of several ways to do this, but I'm looking for something that's easy to read and short.

Answer 1

If you don't need to get rid of the file extension, here's a way to do it without resorting to error-prone String manipulation and without using external libraries. Works with Java 1.7+:

import java.net.URI
import java.nio.file.Paths

String url = "http://example.org/file?p=foo&q=bar"
String filename = Paths.get(new URI(url).getPath()).getFileName().toString()

Answer 2

andy's answer redone using split():

Url u= ...;
String[] pathparts= u.getPath().split("\\/");
String filename= pathparts[pathparts.length-1].split("\\.", 1)[0];

Answer 3

public static String getFileName(URL extUrl) {
        //URL: "http://photosaaaaa.net/photos-ak-snc1/v315/224/13/659629384/s659629384_752969_4472.jpg"
        String filename = "";
        //PATH: /photos-ak-snc1/v315/224/13/659629384/s659629384_752969_4472.jpg
        String path = extUrl.getPath();
        //Checks for both forward and/or backslash 
        //NOTE:**While backslashes are not supported in URL's 
        //most browsers will autoreplace them with forward slashes
        //So technically if you're parsing an html page you could run into 
        //a backslash , so i'm accounting for them here;
        String[] pathContents = path.split("[\\\\/]");
        if(pathContents != null){
            int pathContentsLength = pathContents.length;
            System.out.println("Path Contents Length: " + pathContentsLength);
            for (int i = 0; i < pathContents.length; i++) {
                System.out.println("Path " + i + ": " + pathContents[i]);
            }
            //lastPart: s659629384_752969_4472.jpg
            String lastPart = pathContents[pathContentsLength-1];
            String[] lastPartContents = lastPart.split("\\.");
            if(lastPartContents != null && lastPartContents.length > 1){
                int lastPartContentLength = lastPartContents.length;
                System.out.println("Last Part Length: " + lastPartContentLength);
                //filenames can contain . , so we assume everything before
                //the last . is the name, everything after the last . is the 
                //extension
                String name = "";
                for (int i = 0; i < lastPartContentLength; i++) {
                    System.out.println("Last Part " + i + ": "+ lastPartContents[i]);
                    if(i < (lastPartContents.length -1)){
                        name += lastPartContents[i] ;
                        if(i < (lastPartContentLength -2)){
                            name += ".";
                        }
                    }
                }
                String extension = lastPartContents[lastPartContentLength -1];
                filename = name + "." +extension;
                System.out.println("Name: " + name);
                System.out.println("Extension: " + extension);
                System.out.println("Filename: " + filename);
            }
        }
        return filename;
    }

Answer 4

Keep it simple :

/**
 * This function will take an URL as input and return the file name.
 * <p>Examples :</p>
 * <ul>
 * <li>http://example.com/a/b/c/test.txt -> test.txt</li>
 * <li>http://example.com/ -> an empty string </li>
 * <li>http://example.com/test.txt?param=value -> test.txt</li>
 * <li>http://example.com/test.txt#anchor -> test.txt</li>
 * </ul>
 * 
 * @param url The input URL
 * @return The URL file name
 */
public static String getFileNameFromUrl(URL url) {

    String urlString = url.getFile();

    return urlString.substring(urlString.lastIndexOf('/') + 1).split("\\?")[0].split("#")[0];
}

Answer 5

Create an URL object from the String. When first you have an URL object there are methods to easily pull out just about any snippet of information you need.

I can strongly recommend the Javaalmanac web site which has tons of examples, but which has since moved. You might find http://exampledepot.8waytrips.com/egs/java.io/File2Uri.html interesting:

// Create a file object
File file = new File("filename");

// Convert the file object to a URL
URL url = null;
try {
    // The file need not exist. It is made into an absolute path
    // by prefixing the current working directory
    url = file.toURL();          // file:/d:/almanac1.4/java.io/filename
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
}

// Convert the URL to a file object
file = new File(url.getFile());  // d:/almanac1.4/java.io/filename

// Read the file contents using the URL
try {
    // Open an input stream
    InputStream is = url.openStream();

    // Read from is

    is.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
    // Could not open the file
}

Answer 6

One liner:

new File(uri.getPath).getName

Complete code:

import java.io.File
import java.net.URI

val uri = new URI("http://example.org/file.txt?whatever")

new File(uri.getPath).getName
res18: String = file.txt

Note: URI#gePath is already intelligent enough to strip off query parameters and the protocol's scheme. Examples:

new URI("http://example.org/hey/file.txt?whatever").getPath
res20: String = /hey/file.txt

new URI("hdfs:///hey/file.txt").getPath
res21: String = /hey/file.txt

new URI("file:///hey/file.txt").getPath
res22: String = /hey/file.txt