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

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;
}