code: public static String getStringFromUrl(String urlString) {
      ApacheHttpClient lclient = ApacheHttpClient.create();
      WebResource webResource = lclient.resource(urlString);
      ClientResponse response = webResource.get(ClientResponse.class);
  
      if (response.getStatus() != 200) {
        throw new RuntimeException("HTTP error code : " + response.getStatus());
      }
      String result = response.getEntity(String.class);
      return result;
    }
docs: get a String from a given URL
  
  @param urlString
  @return