How to connect to iota-Node?

[JosephAlzieb]

hi, i want to make a small java app to send messages to the tangle and retrieve them. but i can't run a node on my pc. How can I connect to a neighbour-node to make the app? so where can I find connection info for the existing nodes?

with this code I always get the error message that the node is not reachable..

`// I'm trying to connect to this node "http://api.testnet.shimmer.network:14265/"

IotaAPI api = new IotaAPI.Builder()
.protocol("http")
.host("api.testnet.shimmer.network")
.port("14265")
.build();
`

regards