How to get web pages?

[Yannick Turgeon]

Hello all,

I've got a Visual Basic program (personal use) that downlaod and process
some web pages. I'd like to rebuild it in C++ and use it under linux.

Anybody can point me out where I can find information on getting web pages
HTML code using C++: libraries, already existing code, ...
Suggestions/Recommendations ?

TIA.

Yannick

[Victor Bazarov]

Re: How to get web pages?

"Yannick Turgeon" <NOBODY@NOWHERE .COM> wrote...[color=blue]
> I've got a Visual Basic program (personal use) that downlaod and process
> some web pages. I'd like to rebuild it in C++ and use it under linux.
>
> Anybody can point me out where I can find information on getting web pages
> HTML code using C++: libraries, already existing code, ...
> Suggestions/Recommendations ?[/color]

http://www.google.com

http://www.mozilla.org

news:comp.os.li nux.development .apps

Victor

[Tommy McDaniel]

Re: How to get web pages?

Yannick Turgeon <NOBODY@NOWHERE .COM> wrote in message news:<H%hSa.661 7$5e7.468970@ne ws20.bellglobal .com>...[color=blue]
> Hello all,
>
> I've got a Visual Basic program (personal use) that downlaod and process
> some web pages. I'd like to rebuild it in C++ and use it under linux.
>
> Anybody can point me out where I can find information on getting web pages
> HTML code using C++: libraries, already existing code, ...
> Suggestions/Recommendations ?
>
> TIA.
>
> Yannick[/color]

I've used libcurl (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/) for that before. It's
a C library (although it has bindings for like 20 languages, including
C++), but I've used it just fine in some C++ programs I've written.

Tommy McDaniel

[Cedric LEMAIRE]

Re: How to get web pages?

"Phlip" <phlip_cpp@yaho o.com> wrote in message news:<bfd81u$be 0@dispatch.conc entric.net>...[color=blue]
> Yannick Turgeon wrote:
>[color=green]
> > I've got a Visual Basic program (personal use) that downlaod and process
> > some web pages. I'd like to rebuild it in C++ and use it under linux.
> >
> > Anybody can point me out where I can find information on getting web pages
> > HTML code using C++: libraries, already existing code, ...
> > Suggestions/Recommendations ?[/color]
>
> Linux will come with 'wget' and 'lynx'. Just use either of those to
> download.
>
> Then use a lite language, such as Ruby or Perl, to process the page. C++ is
> too low-level to bother with using here.[/color]
I don't agree totally. libcurl is *very* easy to use and very powerful for
extracting pages. If the page processing is not so complex, C++ might suit you.

Otherwise, you can also have a look to 'CodeWorker' as a scripting language
for complex parsing on HTML (http://www.codeworker.org).

-- Cedric