wcurl(1)

NAME#

wcurl - a simple wrapper around curl to easily download files.

SYNOPSIS#

wcurl <URL>...

wcurl [--curl-options <CURL_OPTIONS>]... [--dry-run] [--no-decode-filename] [-o|-O|--output <PATH>] [--] <URL>...

wcurl [--curl-options=<CURL_OPTIONS>]... [--dry-run] [--no-decode-filename] [--output=<PATH>] [--] <URL>...

wcurl -V|--version

wcurl -h|--help

DESCRIPTION#

wcurl is a simple curl wrapper which lets you use curl to download files without having to remember any parameters.

Simply call wcurl with a list of URLs you want to download and wcurl picks sane defaults.

If you need anything more complex, you can provide any of curl's supported parameters via the --curl-options option. Just beware that you likely should be using curl directly if your use case is not covered.

By default, wcurl does:

* Percent-encode whitespaces in URLs;

* Download multiple URLs in parallel

bash

if the installed curl's version is >= 7.66.0 (--parallel);

* Follow redirects;

* Automatically choose a filename as output;

* Avoid overwriting files

bash

\n
 if the installed curl's version is >= 7.83.0 (--no-clobber);

* Perform retries;

* Set the downloaded file timestamp

bash

to the value provided by the server, if available;

* Default to https

bash

if the URL does not contain any scheme;

* Disable curl's URL globbing parser

bash

so {} and [] characters in URLs are not treated specially;

* Percent-decode the resulting filename;

* Use 'index.html' as the default filename

bash

if there is none in the URL.

OPTIONS#

--curl-options, --curl-options=<CURL_OPTIONS>...

Specify extra options to be passed when invoking curl. May be specified more than once.

-o, -O, --output, --output=<PATH>

Use the provided output path instead of getting it from the URL. If multiple URLs are provided, resulting files share the same name with a number appended to the end (curl >= 7.83.0). If this option is provided multiple times, only the last value is considered.

--no-decode-filename

Don't percent-decode the output filename, even if the percent-encoding in the URL was done by wcurl, e.g.: The URL contained whitespaces.

--dry-run

Do not actually execute curl, just print what would be invoked.

-V, --version

Print version information.

-h, --help

Print help message.

CURL_OPTIONS#

Any option supported by curl can be set here. This is not used by wcurl; it is instead forwarded to the curl invocation.

URL#

URL to be downloaded. Anything that is not a parameter is considered an URL. Whitespaces are percent-encoded and the URL is passed to curl, which then performs the parsing. May be specified more than once.

EXAMPLES#

Download a single file:

wcurl example.com/filename.txt

Download two files in parallel:

wcurl example.com/filename1.txt example.com/filename2.txt

Download a file passing the --progress-bar and --http2 flags to curl:

wcurl --curl-options="--progress-bar --http2" example.com/filename.txt

* Resume from an interrupted download. The options necessary to resume the download (--clobber --continue-at -) must be the last options specified in --curl-options. Note that the only way to resume interrupted downloads is to allow wcurl to overwrite the destination file:

wcurl --curl-options="--clobber --continue-at -" example.com/filename.txt

AUTHORS#

Samuel Henrique <[email protected]>
Sergio Durigan Junior <[email protected]>
and many contributors, see the AUTHORS file.

REPORTING BUGS#

If you experience any problems with wcurl that you do not experience with curl, submit an issue on Github: https://github.com/curl/wcurl

COPYRIGHT#

wcurl is licensed under the curl license

SEE ALSO#

curl(1), trurl(1)