download-curl: High-level file download based on URLs

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High-level file download based on URLs

Download web content as strict or lazy bytestringrs, strings, HTML tags, XML, RSS or Atom feeds or JSON, using the curl network library.

Importing the library:

import Network.Curl.Download

Loading a webpage as a ByteString:

doc  <- openURI "http://haskell.org"

Loading from a file:

doc  <- openURI "file:///tmp/A.hs"

Loading a HTML page as a list of tags:

tags <- openAsTags "http://haskell.org"

Loading a HTML page as XML:

tags <- openAsXML "http://haskell.org"

Loading an RSS or Atom feed:

feed <- openAsFeed "http://haskell.org"

These data types can the be processed further with the XML, Feed and TagSoup libraries.

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Versions [RSS] 0.0, 0.1, 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.1.3, 0.1.4
Dependencies base (>=3 && <6), bytestring, curl, feed, tagsoup (>=0.8 && <0.9), xml [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Copyright (c) 2008, Don Stewart <dons@galois.com>
Author Don Stewart
Maintainer Don Stewart <dons@galois.com>
Category Network
Home page http://code.haskell.org/~dons/code/download-curl
Uploaded by DonaldStewart at 2010-05-08T18:29:56Z
Distributions NixOS:0.1.4, Stackage:0.1.4
Reverse Dependencies 12 direct, 15 indirect [details]
Downloads 8044 total (22 in the last 30 days)
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