@hackage / download

High-level file download based on URLs

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  • Last updated , by psibi
  • License BSD-3-Clause
  • Categories Network Development

  • Maintained by: Sibi Prabakaran <sibi@psibi.in>

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Tested Compilers

  1. 7.10.3

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Download web content as strict bytestring, strings, HTML tags, XML, RSS or Atom feeds or JSON, via HTTP, FTP or file protocols, using a URL interface.

Using the library:

Importing the library:

import Network.Download

Loading a webpage as a ByteString:

doc  <- openURI "http://google.com"

Loading from a file:

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

Loading a HTML page as a list of tags:

tags <- openAsTags "http://google.com"

Loading a HTML page as XML:

tags <- openAsXML "http://google.com"

Loading an RSS or Atom feed:

feed <- openAsFeed "http://google.com"

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