Website content extractor

I have been trying to get a running program to display text from a site that is mainly text, in this case hackaday.com. I just can't find the right methods. Can anyone get it working AND explain it to me?

import javax.swing.JLabel;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.URL;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
public class SeeWebsite
{
public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception
{
URL url = new URL("http://www.hackaday.com");
System.out.println(url.toExternalForm());
}
}

What is printed out when you execute your program?
Why do you expect your code to get the contents of the html file from the server?

All it prints is "http://www.hackaday.com".

I don't. Not yet. That's why I posted here. Also, I'd like to be able to view the text as the browser shows it, not html.

One way would be to use the HttpURLConnection class to connect to a server and read what the server returns. That would be the html.
If you want a browser-like display (simple html only) use the JEditorPane class.

Yes, but how would i convert between the HTML and plain text like would be shown in a browser?

Are you asking how to parse an html page and extract text into Strings? I think there are third party packages that do some of that. Try asking Google.