curl.c

#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;
}