curl_wrapper/README.adoc

Simple libcurl wrapper for when you need to GET a website with minimum effort.

This is not supposed to be a package on its own, but a thing you drop into your project.

I made this because the curl wrapper I used before is no longer maintained and the other wrappers are either incomplete or unmaintained as well.

Example program

#include "curl_wrapper.hpp"
#include <iostream>

namespace cw = curl_wrapper;

cw::CURLWrapper curl;
const auto answer{curl.make_http_request(cw::http_method::GET,
                                         "http://example.com/")};
if (answer)
{
    std::cout << answer;
}

Use with CMake

Drop this project into a subfolder in your project tree. It will be compiled as a static library.

add_subdirectory(curl_wrapper)

add_executable(test)
target_link_libraries(test PRIVATE curl_wrapper)

CMake options:

• -DWITH_TESTS=YES compiles the tests.

Dependencies

• C++17

• CMake >=3.9

• libcurl >= 7.52