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Asked: 2026-05-14T09:05:20+00:00

Basically I have written a game plugin that will allow server admins to update

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Basically I have written a game plugin that will allow server admins to update their administration tools from within game rather than having to go download it and install it. The releases are updated regularly, and the beta versions are nightly builds.

I am trying to find a way to grab the links from the website, but I cannot think of anyway to do this off of the top of my head. Was hoping someone here might be able to suggest something that would work.

http://www.sourcemod.net/snapshots.php

Thats the website, basically I am trying to grab the links for the latest stable branch, and latest development branch.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The solution is simple and can be broken down into a few steps:

    1. Fetching the links & files: Use cURL/cURLpp or Poco C++. They are easy but you may spend a few hours to learn 🙂

    2. Processing/Extracting the links: Use TidyHTML to make sure the HTML is converted to valid XHTML and use XPath to extract the links. Can use libxml2 & libxslt. I’d prefer Qt C++

    3. Fetch the extracted links and save them to pre-defined paths. Boost Filesystem may ease your task with file system.

    Note that if I were to do this (well, I’ve done this before), I’d use only Qt C++ as it provides everything I need. Btw, Qt C++ has a dead simple way to send GET/POST requests & fetch files 🙂 Good luck!

    EDIT:

    Qt C++ XML also provides CSS-like selectors which avoids you using any other libraries: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.6/qt4-6-intro.html#dom-access-api

    In short: Just go for Nokia Qt C++ in all the steps. Download from: http://qt.nokia.com/downloads

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