morpho-curl

Morpho extension that provides a high-level interface to the libcurl network transfer library. You can use this interface to fetch data from a URL in just a couple of lines of morpho code:

import curl 
var data = Curl("www.google.com").fetch()

You can fetch multiple URLs at once by providing a list or tuple:

var data = Curl(["www.google.com", "www.meta.org"]).fetch()

The repository includes a number of examples. E.g. use curl to fetch a protein structure from the Protein databank:

var p2MVH = Curl("https://files.rcsb.org/download/2MVH.pdb").fetch()

Installation

To install the program, ensure you have libcurl installed using:

brew install libcurl [macOS]
apt get libcurl-dev  [ubuntu/WSL]

Clone this repository onto your computer in any convenient place:

git clone https://github.com/morpho-lang/morpho-curl.git

and add the location of this repository to your .morphopackages file.

echo PACKAGEPATH >> ~/.morphopackages 
where PACKAGEPATH is the location of the git repository.

You need to compile the extension, which you can do by cd'ing to the repository's base folder and typing

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .. 
make install

The package can then be loaded into morpho using the import keyword.

import curl