[c/++] Sockets(potentially).

[hmm]

Could anyone direct to source that contains a lot of information on this subject? I'd like to write a program that pulls information from various websites (none of which are my own). Are sockets the way to accomplish this goal? Is there a way?

[Satan911]

You could do it in C++ but honestly if you want to pull information from websites / servers I suggest looking into sockets in python, perl and even Java. Sockets in C++ are hard to implement and I'm almost sure you'll find everything you need in a few python lines.

If you really want to go the C++ way I think the best networking library out there is Boost::asio. http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_38_0/doc/html/boost_asio.html

[hmm]

Thanks, i'll look into python route as well.

[cojacker]

If you're still looking -C# is sweet for webscraping and the best thing is there are alot of examples for anything you want to scrape on the web

I found this with a quick search of google(C# web scraping tutorial)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY4o_E0bilc

[Xires]

http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/