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)