Re: [Boost-users] Grabbing web page content

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-06 23:05:48

on Fri Jul 06 2007, Scott Meyers <usenet-AT-aristeia.com> wrote:

> I'm looking for an easy way to grab the contents of a web page, i.e., something 
> like this (ignoring error handling):
>
> std::string pageContent =
>    getPageContent("http://www.interestingsite.com/funkypage.html");
>
> Is there a Boost library that will give me this kind of interface?  I know I can 
> build this on top of asio, but I'd prefer something where I don't have to do 
> much more work than the above.  If there's no Boost library, I'd welcome 
> suggestions for other cross-platform ways to achieve this.

Python is your friend.

   import urllib
   f = urllib.urlopen("http://www.interestingsite.com/funkypage.html");
   pageContent = f.read()

Yes, we need C++ versions of all these things.

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