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

Get File Name with Extension, without Extension, only Extension with just 3 line:

String urlStr = "http://www.example.com/yourpath/foler/test.png";

String fileName = urlStr.substring(urlStr.lastIndexOf('/')+1, urlStr.length());
String fileNameWithoutExtension = fileName.substring(0, fileName.lastIndexOf('.'));
String fileExtension = urlStr.substring(urlStr.lastIndexOf("."));

Log.i("File Name", fileName);
Log.i("File Name Without Extension", fileNameWithoutExtension);
Log.i("File Extension", fileExtension);

Log Result:

File Name(13656): test.png
File Name Without Extension(13656): test
File Extension(13656): .png

Hope it will help you.

Answer 2

Here is the simplest way to do it in Android. I know it will not work in Java but It may help Android application developer.

import android.webkit.URLUtil;

public String getFileNameFromURL(String url) {
    String fileNameWithExtension = null;
    String fileNameWithoutExtension = null;
    if (URLUtil.isValidUrl(url)) {
        fileNameWithExtension = URLUtil.guessFileName(url, null, null);
        if (fileNameWithExtension != null && !fileNameWithExtension.isEmpty()) {
            String[] f = fileNameWithExtension.split(".");
            if (f != null & f.length > 1) {
                fileNameWithoutExtension = f[0];
            }
        }
    }
    return fileNameWithoutExtension;
}

Answer 3

I've found that some urls when passed directly to FilenameUtils.getName return unwanted results and this needs to be wrapped up to avoid exploits.

For example,

System.out.println(FilenameUtils.getName("http://www.google.com/.."));

returns

..

which I doubt anyone wants to allow.

The following function seems to work fine, and shows some of these test cases, and it returns null when the filename can't be determined.

public static String getFilenameFromUrl(String url)
{
    if (url == null)
        return null;

    try
    {
        // Add a protocol if none found
        if (! url.contains("//"))
            url = "http://" + url;

        URL uri = new URL(url);
        String result = FilenameUtils.getName(uri.getPath());

        if (result == null || result.isEmpty())
            return null;

        if (result.contains(".."))
            return null;

        return result;
    }
    catch (MalformedURLException e)
    {
        return null;
    }
}

This is wrapped up with some simple tests cases in the following example:

import java.util.Objects;
import java.net.URL;
import org.apache.commons.io.FilenameUtils;

class Main {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    validateFilename(null, null);
    validateFilename("", null);
    validateFilename("www.google.com/../me/you?trex=5#sdf", "you");
    validateFilename("www.google.com/../me/you?trex=5 is the num#sdf", "you");
    validateFilename("http://www.google.com/test.png?test", "test.png");
    validateFilename("http://www.google.com", null);
    validateFilename("http://www.google.com#test", null);
    validateFilename("http://www.google.com////", null);
    validateFilename("www.google.com/..", null);
    validateFilename("http://www.google.com/..", null);
    validateFilename("http://www.google.com/test", "test");
    validateFilename("https://www.google.com/../../test.png", "test.png");
    validateFilename("file://www.google.com/test.png", "test.png");
    validateFilename("file://www.google.com/../me/you?trex=5", "you");
    validateFilename("file://www.google.com/../me/you?trex", "you");
  }

  private static void validateFilename(String url, String expectedFilename){
    String actualFilename = getFilenameFromUrl(url);

    System.out.println("");
    System.out.println("url:" + url);
    System.out.println("filename:" + expectedFilename);

    if (! Objects.equals(actualFilename, expectedFilename))
      throw new RuntimeException("Problem, actual=" + actualFilename + " and expected=" + expectedFilename + " are not equal");
  }

  public static String getFilenameFromUrl(String url)
  {
    if (url == null)
      return null;

    try
    {
      // Add a protocol if none found
      if (! url.contains("//"))
        url = "http://" + url;

      URL uri = new URL(url);
      String result = FilenameUtils.getName(uri.getPath());

      if (result == null || result.isEmpty())
        return null;

      if (result.contains(".."))
        return null;

      return result;
    }
    catch (MalformedURLException e)
    {
      return null;
    }
  }
}

Answer 4

How about this:

String filenameWithoutExtension = null;
String fullname = new File(
    new URI("http://www.xyz.com/some/deep/path/to/abc.png").getPath()).getName();

int lastIndexOfDot = fullname.lastIndexOf('.');
filenameWithoutExtension = fullname.substring(0, 
    lastIndexOfDot == -1 ? fullname.length() : lastIndexOfDot);

Answer 5

import java.io.*;

import java.net.*;

public class ConvertURLToFileName{


   public static void main(String[] args)throws IOException{
   BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
   System.out.print("Please enter the URL : ");

   String str = in.readLine();


   try{

     URL url = new URL(str);

     System.out.println("File : "+ url.getFile());
     System.out.println("Converting process Successfully");

   }  
   catch (MalformedURLException me){

      System.out.println("Converting process error");

 }

I hope this will help you.

Answer 6

In order to return filename without extension and without parameters use the following:

String filenameWithParams = FilenameUtils.getBaseName(urlStr); // may hold params if http://example.com/a?param=yes
return filenameWithParams.split("\\?")[0]; // removing parameters from url if they exist

In order to return filename with extension without params use this:

/** Parses a URL and extracts the filename from it or returns an empty string (if filename is non existent in the url) <br/>
 * This method will work in win/unix formats, will work with mixed case of slashes (forward and backward) <br/>
 * This method will remove parameters after the extension
 *
 * @param urlStr original url string from which we will extract the filename
 * @return filename from the url if it exists, or an empty string in all other cases */
private String getFileNameFromUrl(String urlStr) {
    String baseName = FilenameUtils.getBaseName(urlStr);
    String extension = FilenameUtils.getExtension(urlStr);

    try {
        extension = extension.split("\\?")[0]; // removing parameters from url if they exist
        return baseName.isEmpty() ? "" : baseName + "." + extension;
    } catch (NullPointerException npe) {
        return "";
    }
}