An object-oriented C++ wrapper for cURL tool
If you want to know a bit more about cURL and libcurl, you should go on the official website http://curl.haxx.se/
cd build
cmake ..
make # -j2Note: cURL >= 7.34 is required.
Then add <curlcpp root>/build/src/ to your library path and <curlcpp root>/include/ to your include path.
When linking, link against curlcpp (e.g.: g++ -std=c++11 example.cpp -o example -lcurlcpp -lcurl).
Or if you want run from terminal,
g++ -std=c++11 example.cpp -L/home/username/path/to/build/src/ -I/home/username/path/to/include/ -lcurlcpp -lcurl
When using a git submodule and CMake-buildsystem, add the following lines to your CMakeLists.txt:
ADD_SUBDIRECTORY(ext/curlcpp) # Change `ext/curlcpp` to a directory according to your setup
INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(${CURLCPP_SOURCE_DIR}/include)
Here are some usage examples. You will find more examples in the test folder!
Here's an example of a simple HTTP request to get google web page, using the curl_easy interface:
#include "curl_easy.h"
using curl::curl_easy;
using curl::curl_easy_exception;
using curl::curlcpp_traceback;
/**
* This example shows how to make a simple request with curl.
*/
int main() {
// Easy object to handle the connection.
curl_easy easy;
// Add some options.
easy.add<CURLOPT_URL>("http://<your_url_here>");
easy.add<CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION>(1L);
try {
easy.perform();
} catch (curl_easy_exception &error) {
// If you want to print the last error.
std::cerr<<error.what()<<std::endl;
}
return 0;
}If you want to get information about the current curl session, you could do:
#include "curl_easy.h"
#include "curl_ios.h"
#include "curl_exception.h"
using std::ostringstream;
using curl::curl_easy;
using curl::curl_easy_exception;
using curl::curlcpp_traceback;
using curl::curl_ios;
/**
* This example shows how to use the easy interface and obtain
* informations about the current session.
*/
int main(int argc, const char **argv) {
// Let's declare a stream
ostringstream stream;
// We are going to put the request's output in the previously declared stream
curl_ios<ostringstream> ios(stream);
// Declaration of an easy object
curl_easy easy(ios);
// Add some option to the curl_easy object.
easy.add<CURLOPT_URL>("http://<your_url_here>");
easy.add<CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION>(1L);
try {
easy.perform();
// Retrieve information about curl current session.
auto x = easy.get_info<CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE>();
/**
* get_info returns a curl_easy_info object. With the get method we retrieve
* the std::pair object associated with it: the first item is the return code of the
* request. The second is the element requested by the specified libcurl macro.
*/
std::cout<<x.get()<<std::endl;
} catch (curl_easy_exception &error) {
// If you want to print the last error.
std::cerr<<error.what()<<std::endl;
// If you want to print the entire error stack you can do
error.print_traceback();
}
return 0;
}Here's instead, the creation of an HTTPS POST login form:
#include <string>
#include "curl_easy.h"
#include "curl_pair.h"
#include "curl_form.h"
#include "curl_exception.h"
using std::string;
using curl::curl_form;
using curl::curl_easy;
using curl::curl_pair;
using curl::curl_easy_exception;
using curl::curlcpp_traceback;
int main(int argc, const char * argv[]) {
curl_form form;
curl_easy easy;
// Forms creation
curl_pair<CURLformoption,string> name_form(CURLFORM_COPYNAME,"user");
curl_pair<CURLformoption,string> name_cont(CURLFORM_COPYCONTENTS,"you username here");
curl_pair<CURLformoption,string> pass_form(CURLFORM_COPYNAME,"passw");
curl_pair<CURLformoption,string> pass_cont(CURLFORM_COPYCONTENTS,"your password here");
try {
// Form adding
form.add(name_form,name_cont);
form.add(pass_form,pass_cont);
// Add some options to our request
easy.add<CURLOPT_URL>("http://<your_url_here>");
easy.add<CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER>(false);
easy.add<CURLOPT_HTTPPOST>(form.get());
// Execute the request.
easy.perform();
} catch (curl_easy_exception &error) {
// If you want to get the entire error stack we can do:
curlcpp_traceback errors = error.get_traceback();
// Otherwise we could print the stack like this:
error.print_traceback();
}
return 0;
}And if we would like to put the returned content in a file? Nothing easier than:
#include <iostream>
#include <ostream>
#include <fstream>
#include "curl_easy.h"
#include "curl_ios.h"
#include "curl_exception.h"
using std::cout;
using std::endl;
using std::ostream;
using std::ofstream;
using curl::curl_easy;
using curl::curl_ios;
using curl::curl_easy_exception;
using curl::curlcpp_traceback;
int main(int argc, const char * argv[]) {
// Create a file
ofstream myfile;
myfile.open ("/path/to/your/file");
// Create a curl_ios object to handle the stream
curl_ios<ostream> writer(myfile);
// Pass it to the easy constructor and watch the content returned in that file!
curl_easy easy(writer);
// Add some option to the easy handle
easy.add<CURLOPT_URL>("http://<your_url_here>");
easy.add<CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION>(1L);
try {
// Execute the request
easy.perform();
} catch (curl_easy_exception &error) {
// If you want to print the last error.
std::cerr<<error.what()<<std::endl;
// If you want to print the entire error stack you can do
error.print_traceback();
}
myfile.close();
return 0;
}Not interested in files? So let's put the request's output in a variable!
#include <iostream>
#include <ostream>
#include "curl_easy.h"
#include "curl_form.h"
#include "curl_ios.h"
#include "curl_exception.h"
using std::cout;
using std::endl;
using std::ostringstream;
using curl::curl_easy;
using curl::curl_ios;
using curl::curl_easy_exception;
using curl::curlcpp_traceback;
int main() {
// Create a stringstream object
ostringstream str;
// Create a curl_ios object, passing the stream object.
curl_ios<ostringstream> writer(str);
// Pass the writer to the easy constructor and watch the content returned in that variable!
curl_easy easy(writer);
// Add some option to the easy handle
easy.add<CURLOPT_URL>("http://<your_url_here>");
easy.add<CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION>(1L);
try {
easy.perform();
// Let's print the stream content
cout<<str.str()<<endl;
} catch (curl_easy_exception &error) {
// If you want to print the last error.
std::cerr<<error.what()<<std::endl;
// If you want to print the entire error stack you can do
error.print_traceback();
}
return 0;
}I have implemented a sender and a receiver to make it easy to use send/receive without handling buffers. For example, a very simple send/receiver would be:
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include "curl_easy.h"
#include "curl_form.h"
#include "curl_pair.h"
#include "curl_receiver.h"
#include "curl_exception.h"
#include "curl_sender.h"
using std::cout;
using std::endl;
using std::string;
using curl::curl_form;
using curl::curl_easy;
using curl::curl_sender;
using curl::curl_receiver;
using curl::curl_easy_exception;
using curl::curlcpp_traceback;
int main(int argc, const char * argv[]) {
// Simple request
string request = "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: example.com\r\n\r\n";
// Creation of easy object.
curl_easy easy;
try {
easy.add<CURLOPT_URL>("http://<your_url_here>");
// Just connect
easy.add<CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY>(true);
// Execute the request.
easy.perform();
} catch (curl_easy_exception &error) {
// If you want to get the entire error stack we can do:
curlcpp_traceback errors = error.get_traceback();
// Otherwise we could print the stack like this:
error.print_traceback();
}
// Creation of a sender. You should wait here using select to check if socket is ready to send.
curl_sender<string> sender(easy);
sender.send(request);
// Prints che sent bytes number.
cout<<"Sent bytes: "<<sender.get_sent_bytes()<<endl;
for(;;) {
// You should wait here to check if socket is ready to receive
try {
// Create a receiver
curl_receiver<char, 1024> receiver;
// Receive the content on the easy handler
receiver.receive(easy);
// Prints the received bytes number.
cout<<"Receiver bytes: "<<receiver.get_received_bytes()<<endl;
} catch (curl_easy_exception &error) {
// If any errors occurs, exit from the loop
break;
}
}
return 0;
}