NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       wcurl [--curl-options <CURL_OPTIONS>]... [--dry-run] [--] <URL>...
       wcurl [--curl-options=<CURL_OPTIONS>]... [--dry-run] [--] <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 will pick 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 will:
              •  Encode whitespaces in URLs;
              •  Download multiple URLs in parallel if the installed curl's version is >= 7.66.0;
              •  Follow redirects;
              •  Automatically choose a filename as output;
              •  Avoid overwriting files if the installed curl's version is >= 7.83.0 (--no-clobber);
              •  Perform retries;
              •  Set the downloaded file timestamp to the value provided by the server, if available;
              •  Default to the protocol used as https if the URL doesn't contain any.
              •  Disable curl's URL globbing parser so {} and [] characters in URLs are not treated specially.

OPTIONS

       --curl-options, --curl-options=<CURL_OPTIONS>...
              Specify extra options to be passed when invoking curl. May be specified more than once.

       --dry-run
              Don't 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's instead forwarded  to  the
       curl invocation.

URL

       Anything which is not a parameter will be considered an URL.  wcurl will encode whitespaces and pass that
       to curl, which will perform the parsing of the URL.

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  (if  more options are used, this needs to be the last one in the
       list):
       wcurl --curl-options="--continue-at -" example.com/filename.txt

AUTHORS

       Samuel Henrique <samueloph@debian.org>
       Sergio durigan junior <sergiodj@debian.org>
       Ryan Carsten Schmidt <git@ryandesign.com>
       Ben Zanin

REPORTING BUGS

       If you experience any problems with wcurl that you do not experience with curl, submit an  issue  on  the
       Debian Bug Tracking System.

       Alternatively, you can also submit an issue on Github or Debian's salsa:
       https://github.com/Debian/wcurl
       https://salsa.debian.org/debian/wcurl

COPYRIGHT

       wcurl is licensed under the curl license

SEE ALSO

       curl(1)

wcurl                                              2024.07.10                                           wcurl(1)