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wcurl is here

July 3, 2024 Daniel Stenberg 4 Comments

Users tell us that remembering what curl options to use when they
just want to download the contents of a URL is hard. This is one
often repeated reason why some users reach for wget instead of curl
on the command line. It downloads the data from the URL without you
needing to provide any extra arguments. Without you needing to
remember which option(s) to use.

In the curl user survey of 2024, it was again mentioned several
times.

Enter wcurl

Samuel Henrique decided to do something about it. Today he announced
that he not only created wcurl as a curl wrapper aimed at meeting
this exact need, he also created a Debian package out of it and made
sure wcurl now ships as part of the curl package. Starting in 8.8.0-2
. I already have it on my Debian unstable installations.

wcurl is implemented a shell script that uses curl. It also ships
with its own manpage.

Take it for a spin. Tell the team what you think!

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4 thoughts on "wcurl is here"

 1. [79c] Steffen says:
    July 4, 2024 at 10:40

    This is great. Humble opinion: wcurl should be shipped with curl.

    PS: Thank you for your work on curl!

 2. [2e3] Max says:
    July 4, 2024 at 12:57

    Why not just continue to use wget?

     1. [0bc] Bennet Eapen says:
        July 4, 2024 at 14:41

        Exactly what I was thinking...

 3. [beb] Paul Hoffman says:
    July 4, 2024 at 18:36

    +1 to making this part of the curl distribution, and +1 to the
    repeated thanks for the curl distribution.

    As for "why not use wget": it has different options and
    assumptions that curl. They are fine, but remembering which one
    I'm about to get when I pick between curl and wget is
    error-prone.

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