@hackage download-curl0.0

High-level file download based on URLs

Installation
In your cabal file:
Dependencies (6)
- base >=3
- bytestring
- curl
- feed
- tagsoup >0.1 && <0.13
- xml
Dependents (20)
@hackage/shellmate, @hackage/GoogleSuggest, @hackage/scalpel, @hackage/codex, @hackage/gps2htmlReport, @hackage/GoogleTranslate, Show all…

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Build with new smaller base library

High-level file download based on URLs

Download web content as strict bytestring, 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.