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Using libcurl to download remote file in C
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#include <stdio.h> | |
#include <curl/curl.h> | |
int main(int argc, char **argv) | |
{ | |
CURL *curl; | |
FILE *fp; | |
int result; | |
// Output file | |
fp = fopen(argv[2], "wb"); | |
// Initialize curl handler | |
curl = curl_easy_init(); | |
// Set options of curl handlder | |
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, argv[1]); | |
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, fp); | |
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1L); | |
// Download the file from specified url(argv[1]) | |
result = curl_easy_perform(curl); | |
// Check result | |
if (result == CURLE_OK) | |
printf("Download successful!\n"); | |
else | |
printf("ERROR: %s\n",curl_easy_strerror(result)); | |
fclose(fp); | |
curl_easy_cleanup(curl); | |
return 0; | |
} |
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