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Downloader

This C program uses the cURL library to download a file from a URL. It prompts the user to enter a URL and filename, initializes a cURL handle, configures the handle with the URL and file pointer, performs the download, and cleans up. It returns an error message if the download fails or a success message if it completes successfully.

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Downloader

This C program uses the cURL library to download a file from a URL. It prompts the user to enter a URL and filename, initializes a cURL handle, configures the handle with the URL and file pointer, performs the download, and cleans up. It returns an error message if the download fails or a success message if it completes successfully.

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Paritosh
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/*

* A file downloader
* @uthor: PARITOSH KUMAR RAKESH
* DATE: JUL 23 2020
*/

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <libxml/HTMLparser.h>
#include <libxml/xpath.h>
#include <libxml/uri.h>
#include <curl/curl.h>

int main()
{
CURL* curl; //Curl handle for networking
char filename[20];
char url[1000];
system("clear");
printf("URL >>> ");
scanf("%s",&url);
printf("Filename >>> ");
scanf("%s",&filename);
FILE* fp = fopen(filename,"wb");
int result;
curl = curl_easy_init(); //initialise the handle
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url); //configure the handle to parse the
url
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_ALTSVC, "altsvc.txt");

/* restrict which HTTP versions to use alternatives */


curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_ALTSVC_CTRL, (long)
CURLALTSVC_H1|CURLALTSVC_H2|CURLALTSVC_H3);

curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, fp); //'' to write to a filepointer


curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1L);
result = curl_easy_perform(curl);
if(result == CURLE_OK)
{
printf("\nDownload succes!\n");
}
else
{
printf("ERROR: %s\n",curl_easy_strerror(result));
}
fclose(fp);
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
return 0;
}

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