Re: Web crawling in Lua

[Michal Kottman <k0mpjut0r@...>]

On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 14:41 +0200, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> The libcurl library documentation lists two sets of Lua bindings to curl:
> 
> Lua
> 
>   luacurl by Alexander Marinov
>   http://luacurl.luaforge.net/
> 
>   Lua-cURL by Jürgen Hötzel
>   http://luaforge.net/projects/lua-curl/
> 
> Comments welcome by someone who has experience of either.

Both have a similar interface. I use them both in my little web-crawling
utility module WDM [1], so you may take a look there.

The differences essentially are:

LuaCurl:
- binds only the easy interface
- initialize with curl.new()
- passes (userparam, string) to WRITEUNCTION

Lua-cURL:
- binds also multi/shared API
- initialize with curl.easy_init()
- passes only string to WRITEFUNCTION


[1] https://github.com/mkottman/wdm/blob/master/wdm.lua