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[Macoder]

I want to figure out how to read a webpage. (as plain text) I'm not downloading anything, or displaying pictures, just finding out what's on the webpage. Is there some easy function in some library that does that with just the webpage as the argument? I've been looking around, and I found curl, but I can't get it to build to a framework. Does anyone have a good library for this?

[TheSourceOfX]

I apologize if this sounds insincere, but I just want to cover everything; are you talking about getting the source of the web page, and if so, is it not sufficient to just right click on the page and select "View Source" from the popup menu? In other worrds, do you need this to be an input to a program given any web page or do you just need to obtain the source code for some particular page?

-TheSourceOfX

[Macoder]

I want it to put what's in "View source" in a variable for a webpage I say in the program, so yes, it would be input.

[ZekeDragon]

This is perfect for libcURL. Go and download it, and if you're using C++ get the C++ bindings as well. That should be exactly what you need.

[Macoder]

ZekeDragon said:

This is perfect for libcURL. Go and download it, and if you're using C++ get the C++ bindings as well. That should be exactly what you need.

Macoder said:

I've been looking around, and I found curl, but I can't get it to build to a framework.

Do you know how to build it to a .framework file??

[dargueta]

You can also use socket programming with HTTP, if you want to learn how the libraries work. I can help you with that if you like.

[carly]

On Windows, just use Win32 Net apis : 1 line of code...

[dargueta]

Do you mean the WinHTTP APIs? Definitely not one line of code.