How to download file with c++ code using curl?

Question

I do not know how to download the .exe file using curl liblary. I searched the entire internet and found only this code:

int main(void)
{
    CURL *curl;
    FILE *fp;
    CURLcode res;
    char *url = "http://stackoverflow.com";
    char outfilename[FILENAME_MAX] = "page.html";
    curl = curl_easy_init();                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
    if (curl)
    {   
        fp = fopen(outfilename,"wb");
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url);
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, NULL);
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, fp);
        res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
        curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
        fclose(fp);
    }   
    return 0;
}

The problem is that this code downloads only the page code. But how to download the .exe/txt file from the cloud (like google drive / GitHub)?

Thank you in advance for your answer.

Answer 1

I do not know how to download the .exe file using curl liblary. I searched the entire internet and found only this code

well you didn't search hard enough. libcurl's official website is https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/ and as you can see

it has an examples section, located at https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/example.html with lots of examples. 1 of the most simple examples being located at https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/simple.html , and specifically a simple "file download" example can be found here: https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/url2file.html

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/* <DESC>
 * Download a given URL into a local file named page.out.
 * </DESC>
 */ 

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#include <curl/curl.h>

static size_t write_data(void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *stream)
{
  size_t written = fwrite(ptr, size, nmemb, (FILE *)stream);
  return written;
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  CURL *curl_handle;
  static const char *pagefilename = "page.out";
  FILE *pagefile;

  if(argc < 2) {
    printf("Usage: %s <URL>\n", argv[0]);
    return 1;
  }

  curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_ALL);

  /* init the curl session */ 
  curl_handle = curl_easy_init();

  /* set URL to get here */ 
  curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, argv[1]);

  /* Switch on full protocol/debug output while testing */ 
  curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1L);

  /* disable progress meter, set to 0L to enable and disable debug output */ 
  curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, 1L);

  /* send all data to this function  */ 
  curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, write_data);

  /* open the file */ 
  pagefile = fopen(pagefilename, "wb");
  if(pagefile) {

    /* write the page body to this file handle */ 
    curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, pagefile);

    /* get it! */ 
    curl_easy_perform(curl_handle);

    /* close the header file */ 
    fclose(pagefile);
  }

  /* cleanup curl stuff */ 
  curl_easy_cleanup(curl_handle);

  curl_global_cleanup();

  return 0;
}