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JB87
JB87

Reputation: 317

How to download web content using C?

I have to write a C parser for online blogs and different word manipulation features.

I know how to parse / tokenise stings in C, but how would you on execution download the pages content to a local /tmp directory as an HTML file so I can save the information (the blogs) into a string using I/O?

Or, just grab the block of text directly from the page I am viewing...

My system could be either Ubuntu or Windows 7, so I dont think wget will cut it. Please help.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 331

Answers (4)

Johann Gerell
Johann Gerell

Reputation: 25591

MSDN: URLDownloadToFile

Upvotes: 0

Praveen S
Praveen S

Reputation: 10393

And there is libsoup too.

Upvotes: 0

codaddict
codaddict

Reputation: 455360

Alternatively you can make use of system to execute wget

Upvotes: 1

Georg Fritzsche
Georg Fritzsche

Reputation: 99092

Take a look at libcurl:

libcurl is a free and easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library, supporting [...] HTTP, HTTPS, [...]

libcurl is highly portable, it builds and works identically on numerous platforms, including [...] Linux, [...] Windows, [...]

Upvotes: 8

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