url2file.c

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/* <DESC>
 * Download a given URL into a local file named page.out.
 * </DESC>
 */
#ifdef _MSC_VER
#ifndef _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS
#define _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS  /* for fopen() */
#endif
#endif
 
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
 
#include <curl/curl.h>
 
static size_t write_cb(char *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *stream)
{
  size_t written = fwrite(ptr, size, nmemb, (FILE *)stream);
  return written;
}
 
int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
{
  static const char *pagefilename = "page.out";
 
  CURLcode result;
  CURL *curl;
 
  if(argc < 2) {
    printf("Usage: %s <URL>\n", argv[0]);
    return 1;
  }
 
  result = curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_ALL);
  if(result != CURLE_OK) {
    fprintf(stderr, "Could not init curl\n");
    return (int)result;
  }
 
  /* init the curl session */
  curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    FILE *pagefile;
 
    /* set URL to get here */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, argv[1]);
 
    /* Switch on full protocol/debug output while testing */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1L);
 
    /* disable progress meter, set to 0L to enable it */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, 1L);
 
    /* send all data to this function */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, write_cb);
 
    /* open the file */
    pagefile = fopen(pagefilename, "wb");
    if(pagefile) {
 
      /* write the page body to this file handle */
      curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, pagefile);
 
      /* get it! */
      result = curl_easy_perform(curl);
 
      /* close the header file */
      fclose(pagefile);
    }
 
    /* cleanup curl stuff */
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
 
  curl_global_cleanup();
 
  return (int)result;
}

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