Query data from website

[fluid basin]

How would I query data from a website with c++? I need to grab football scores from an api with a known query (http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/football/college-football/scoreboard,
calendar: 'blacklist'
dates: any date in YYYYMMDD)
Can I do this? Can I do it from a json? Is there a better way? I'm very new

[astral yoke]

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[spice prism]

@fluid basin Unless for some reason you're forced to use C++, I really recommend you to use a different language like javascript or python, which is far better designed for this sort of stuff. C++ is a system language, it's not designed for web scraping at all.

If you're being held at gunpoint to use C++, then you can probably pipe some sort of std::system command which could potentially retrieve the website's data given the right commands.

[fluid basin]

I came to realize that, I am using python. I know it isn't this server, but any guidance about doing it with python?

[spice prism]

idk any python, i'm a js dev

[fluid basin]

Fair enough, thanks

[spice prism]

there should be a package that scrapes the data of a website for you though

you just gotta look hard enough

[astral yoke]

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[fluid basin]

!solved