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 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:
              •  Percent-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;
              •  Percent-decode the resulting filename;
              •  Use "index.html" as default filename if there's 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,
              all  files  will  have  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.

       --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 percent-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>
       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)

wcurl                                              2025.02.24                                           wcurl(1)