download-curl

High-level file download based on URLs

http://code.haskell.org/~dons/code/download-curl

LTS Haskell 24.16:0.1.4@rev:2
Stackage Nightly 2025-10-24:0.1.4@rev:2
Latest on Hackage:0.1.4@rev:2

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BSD-3-Clause licensed by Don Stewart
Maintained by Don Stewart
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Module documentation for 0.1.4

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.