Jared Burrows Blog: How to use libcurl in C/C++

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Newer languages such as Java and newer scripting languages such as Python come with good libraries to download files and do online work. A good way to download files using C/C++ is to download and install the libcurl library.

First run 'curl-config --libs' to see if you have the library '-libcurl'
search for the package: 'apt-cache search libcurl'
install the package: 'sudo apt-get install libcurl4-nss-dev'
check to see if you have the package again

Next, go to http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/simple.html. Copy and paste the code, save as 'simple.c' Change the "http://example.com" to something you want.

Compile your code: 'gcc simple.c -lcurl -o simple.out'
Run the code: './simple.out'

Output of (http://www.google.com/):

<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<title>301 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><body>
<h1>
301 Moved</H1>
The document has moved
<a HREF="http://www.google.com/">here</A>.
</BODY></HTML>

http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/simple.html

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How to use libcurl in C/C++

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