HTTP GET into Table

Simple HTTP GET request to download the HTML of a web page and save it in a database table.

Download Chilkat HTTP ActiveX

CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    DECLARE @http int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Http', @http OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    DECLARE @success int

    -- Any string unlocks the component for the 1st 30-days.
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @http, 'UnlockComponent', @success OUT, 'Anything for 30-day trial'
    IF @success <> 1
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @http, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        RETURN
      END

    -- 
DECLARE @url nvarchar(4000)

    SELECT @url = 'http://www.w3.org/Protocols/'

    -- Download the HTML page into a temp table.
    DECLARE @tmp TABLE (html ntext)
    INSERT INTO @tmp EXEC sp_OAMethod @http, 'QuickGetStr', NULL, @url

    -- Insert a record into our HtmlPages table.
    -- url is a nvarchar(4000), the html column is ntext
    INSERT HtmlPages(url,html) SELECT @url, html FROM @tmp

END
GO