DumbLinks

DumbLinks is a simple C++ program designed to fetch a webpage and extract all hyperlinks from it. Utilizing the libcurl library, it performs HTTP requests to retrieve the HTML content of a user-specified URL. It then parses the HTML using regular expressions to find all <a> tags and extracts the URLs from their href attributes.

Features

Fetch Web Content: Retrieves HTML content from a given URL entered by the user.
Automatic Redirect Handling: Follows HTTP redirects to fetch the final destination content.
Link Extraction: Parses the HTML to extract all hyperlinks (<a href="...">).
Console Output: Displays the list of found links directly in the console.

Usage

Compile the Program:

Ensure you have libcurl installed on your system. Compile the program using the following command:
```
g++ -o DumbLinks DumbLinks.cpp -lcurl
```
Run the Program:

Execute the compiled program:
```
./DumbLinks
```
Enter the URL:

When prompted, input the hostname or URL from which you want to extract links:
```
Enter hostname: example.com
```
Note: If you don't include http:// or https://, the program will automatically prepend http:// to the hostname.
View Extracted Links:

The program will fetch the webpage content, parse it, and display all found hyperlinks in the console:
```
Found link: https://www.iana.org/domains/example
```

Example Output

Enter hostname: example.com
URL being requested: https://example.com
Found link: https://www.iana.org/domains/example

Dependencies

C++ Compiler: A compiler that supports C++11 or later (e.g., GCC, Clang).
libcurl: The curl library for handling HTTP requests.
- Install on Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
- Install on CentOS/Fedora: sudo dnf install libcurl-devel

Limitations

HTML Parsing: Uses regular expressions for parsing HTML, which may not handle all HTML edge cases or malformed HTML.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to submit issues or pull requests to improve the functionality or fix bugs.

Contact

For any questions or suggestions, please contact @dumbbutt0 .

dumbbutt0/DumbLinks