getinmemory.c

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 * $Id$
 *
 * Example source code to show how the callback function can be used to
 * download data into a chunk of memory instead of storing it in a file.
 *
 * This exact source code has not been verified to work.
 */

#include <stdio.h>

#include <curl/curl.h>
#include <curl/types.h>
#include <curl/easy.h>

struct MemoryStruct {
  char *memory;
  size_t size;
};

size_t
WriteMemoryCallback(void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *data)
{
  register int realsize = size * nmemb;
  struct MemoryStruct *mem = (struct MemoryStruct *)data;
  
  mem->memory = (char *)realloc(mem->memory, mem->size + realsize + 1);
  if (mem->memory) {
    memcpy(&(mem->memory[mem->size]), ptr, realsize);
    mem->size += realsize;
    mem->memory[mem->size] = 0;
  }
  return realsize;
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  CURL *curl_handle;

  struct MemoryStruct chunk;

  chunk.memory=NULL; /* we expect realloc(NULL, size) to work */
  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, "http://cool.haxx.se/");

  /* 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");

  /* get it! */
  curl_easy_perform(curl_handle);

  /* cleanup curl stuff */
  curl_easy_cleanup(curl_handle);

  /*
   * Now, our chunk.memory points to a memory block that is chunk.size
   * bytes big and contains the remote file.
   *
   * Do something nice with it!
   *
   * You should be aware of the fact that at this point we might have an
   * allocated data block, and nothing has yet deallocated that data. So when
   * you're done with it, you should free() it as a nice application.
   */

  return 0;
}