Save cURL content result into a string in C++

Question

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl;
  CURLcode res;

  curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, \"http://www.google.com\");
    curl_         


        

Answer 1

Using the 'new' C++11 lambda functionality, this can be done in a few lines of code.

#ifndef WIN32 #define __stdcall "" #endif //For compatibility with both Linux and Windows
std::string resultBody { };
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, &resultBody);
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, static_cast(
    [](char* ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void* resultBody){
        *(static_cast(resultBody)) += std::string {ptr, size * nmemb};
        return size * nmemb;
    }
));

CURLcode curlResult = curl_easy_perform(curl);
std::cout << "RESULT BODY:\n" << resultBody << std::endl;
// Cleanup etc

Note the __stdcall cast is needed to comply to the C calling convention (cURL is a C library)