How to get stream over lines of text at certain URL in Java 8 way?

Question

I would like to read those words line by line: http://www.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt

I tried to get a Stream:

Stream<String> stream = Files.lines(Paths.get("http://www.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt"));
stream.forEach((word) -> System.out.println(word));
//Close the stream and it's underlying file as well
stream.close();

but as I suspected it works only for files. Is there similar methods for URLs?

Answer 1

BufferedReader also has a lines() method returning a stream. So you just need to open a BufferedReader wrapping an InputStreamReader wrapping the URL connection input stream:

try (InputStream is = new URL("http://www.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt").openConnection().getInputStream();
     BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
     Stream<String> stream = reader.lines()) {
    stream.forEach(System.out::println);
}