Re: Debian is now shipping wcurl: a curl wrapper to download files (fwd)

From: Hans Henrik Bergan via curl-users <curl-users_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2024 10:41:17 +0200

* Perform retries;
* Resume from broken/interrupted downloads.

Those are the main reasons I use wget over curl for downloads 🤔

On Thu, Jul 4, 2024, 10:18 Daniel Stenberg via curl-users <
curl-users_at_lists.haxx.se> wrote:

> FYI,
>
> I figure one or two peeps on the curl-users might like this:
>
> --
>
> / daniel.haxx.se
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2024 21:07:25
> From: Samuel Henrique <samueloph_at_debian.org>
> To: curl-distros_at_lists.haxx.se
> Cc: curl_at_packages.debian.org
> Subject: Debian is now shipping wcurl: a curl wrapper to download files
>
> During curl-up, we briefly discussed the possibility of Debian shipping a
> small
> script that could be used as a drop-in replacement for the simpler use
> cases of
> wget.
>
> It's now being shipped in Debian together with the curl package.
>
> To the folks from other distros, you should feel free to redistribute it
> if you
> think it makes sense. The license is the same as curl's and there's a
> manpage.
>
> Description:
> Whenever you need to download files through the terminal and don't feel
> like
> using wget:
>
> $ wcurl example.com/filename.txt
>
> By default, wcurl will:
> * Encode whitespaces in URLs;
> * Download multiple URLs in parallel;
> * Follow redirects;
> * Automatically choose a filename as output;
> * Perform retries;
> * Resume from broken/interrupted downloads.
> * Set the downloaded file timestamp to the value provided by the server,
> if available;
>
> I wrote a bit more about wcurl here:
>
> https://samueloph.dev/blog/announcing-wcurl-a-curl-wrapper-to-download-files/
>
> --
> Samuel Henrique <samueloph>
>
> --
> Unsubscribe: https://lists.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/curl-users
> Etiquette: https://curl.se/mail/etiquette.html
>

-- 
Unsubscribe: https://lists.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/curl-users
Etiquette:   https://curl.se/mail/etiquette.html

Received on 2024-07-04