#include "curl.h" // Borrowed from https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/getinmemory.html struct MemoryStruct { char *memory; size_t size; }; static size_t WriteMemoryCallback(void *contents, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *userp) { size_t realsize = size * nmemb; struct MemoryStruct *mem = (struct MemoryStruct *)userp; mem->memory = realloc(mem->memory, mem->size + realsize + 1); if(mem->memory == NULL) return 0; memcpy(&(mem->memory[mem->size]), contents, realsize); mem->size += realsize; mem->memory[mem->size] = 0; return realsize; } char *getData(char *url) { CURL *curl_handle; CURLcode res; struct MemoryStruct chunk; chunk.memory = malloc(1); /* will be grown as needed by the realloc above */ chunk.size = 0; /* no data at this point */ curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_ALL); /* init the curl session */ curl_handle = curl_easy_init(); /* specify URL to get */ curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, url); curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_NOPROXY, "*"); /* send all data to this function */ curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, WriteMemoryCallback); /* we pass our 'chunk' struct to the callback function */ curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, (void *)&chunk); /* some servers don't like requests that are made without a user-agent field, so we provide one */ curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "libcurl-agent/1.0"); #ifdef WIN32 curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_CAINFO, "cacert.pem"); #endif /* get it! */ res = curl_easy_perform(curl_handle); /* check for errors */ if(res != CURLE_OK) { fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_perform() failed: %s\n", curl_easy_strerror(res)); } /* cleanup curl stuff */ curl_easy_cleanup(curl_handle); /* we're done with libcurl, so clean it up */ curl_global_cleanup(); return chunk.memory; }