Thread: I need to open a web page from c++

FAQ > How do I... (Level 2) > Run a program from within a program.

I don't think he's looking to open the page in a web browser, I think he's looking to just grab the HTML. This is easy enough to do, you just open a socket to the web page and read... then you just write what you read to a file.

Well you could use cURL or wget to grab the pages for you, then use your program to read text files.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL

Or you could use the library libcurl which comes with it, so you can write the code directly.

Or you could use low level network programming and implement it all yourself.

Or (assuming you're on windows since you said notepad), and that you're using some visual C++ compiler, how about using one of the M$ wrappers for network programming?

Or, if you didn't want to get into curl -

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>

#include <urlmon.h>
#include <conio.h>


#pragma comment( lib, "urlmon.lib" )	


using namespace std;

int main( void )
{

	HRESULT ReturnValue;

	string	FromSite = "http://www.google.com/";
	string	ToFile = "C:\\thing.php";

	
	ReturnValue = URLDownloadToFile(	NULL, 
						FromSite.c_str(),
						ToFile.c_str(), 
						0, 
						NULL );	

	return 0;
}

Which depends on whether you have the headers required, obviously.

By "work for a company"... I'm going to assume you don't mean as a programmer. If you know nothing about programming, then I suggest you use cURL or something similar as Salem suggested. If you are, in fact, and employed programmer then I personally think we've given you enough buzz words for you to figure this out yourself. But I will say that there is a Network Programming forum on this message board which has a sticky to several links about socket programming. Read up.