Simple HTTP Request Bot

This is a small C++ tool I put together for the GSoC evaluation task. It reads a list of URLs from a JSON file, fetches them using libcurl, and shows a quick preview of what it found.

How to build it

You'll need cmake, libcurl, and the nlohmann-json library. If you're on a Mac, you can just grab them with brew:

brew install curl nlohmann-json cmake

Then just follow the usual cmake flow:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

Running it

Once you've built it, you can run it by passing the config file:

./httpbot ../config.json

How it works

1. Config: It uses nlohmann/json to parse your settings.
2. Requests: It uses libcurl for the heavy lifting. I set it to follow redirects and time out after 10 seconds so it doesn't get stuck.
3. Bot Name: It uses the bot_name from your JSON as the User-Agent string.
4. Preview: It prints the HTTP status code and the first few lines of the response just to show it's working.