Downloading files from an FTP server is like the method shown before. However, assuming the FTP server requires user authentication, use the following command structure:. In certain situations, the URL that you are trying to access may be blocked due to a lack of a proper user agent.
Curl allows you to define the user agent manually. As for the user agent, you can use the User Agents randomizer. If you want a custom user agent, then you can find one from WhatIsMyBrowser. Despite it being a simple and lightweight tool, curl offers tons of features. Compared to other command-line download managers, like wget, curl offers a more sophisticated way of handling file downloads.
For in-depth information, I always recommend checking out the man page of curl, which you can open with the following command:. Skip to content Home. Search for:. Curl is a popular command-line tool used for downloading files from the Internet. It is a lightweight tool that is available on any UNIX system. Using this, we can also change the type of the file. This is shown in the image below:. Wget also allows users to recursively download their files which is basically downloading all the files from the website under a single directory.
For more information regarding Wget, users can input the following command into the terminal to get access to all the Wget commands that appear to be available:. Curl is another command line tool that can be used to download files from the internet. Unlike Wget, which is command line only, features of Curl are powered by libcurl which is a cross-platform URL transfer library. Curl not only allows downloading of files but can also be used for uploading and exchanging of requests with servers.
However, Curl does not support recursive downloads which Wget offers. Similarly, like Wget, Curl comes pre-installed with most of the Linux Distributions. This can simply be checked by running the following command:.
Just like Wget, Curl has multiple features incorporated inside of it. The most basic is its ability to allow users to download files from a single URL from the internet. For better understanding, we will be downloading a simple image in the png format from the internet just like in the case of Wget.
You can mirror an entire website with wget. By downloading an entire website I mean the entire public facing website structure. If you aborted the download by pressing C for some reasons, you can resume the previous download with option -c. Like wget, curl is also one of the most popular commands to download files in Linux terminal.
To install curl on Ubuntu and other Debian based distributions, use the following command:. If you use curl without any option with a URL, it will read the file and print it on the terminal screen.
It is simpler to download multiple files in Linux with curl. You just have to specify multiple URLs:. Keep in mind that curl is not as simple as wget. While wget saves webpages as index. This is because some times the links redirect to some other link and with option -L, it follows the final link.
Curl started its journey back in the mids when the Internet was still a new thing. Daniel Stenberg, a Swedish programmer, started the project that eventually became curl. He aimed to develop a bot that would download currency exchange rates from a webpage periodically and provide Swedish Kronor equivalents in USD to IRC users.
The project was successful and, thus, curl was born. Over time, curl was further improved with the addition of new internet protocols and features. In this guide, check out how to use curl to download a file. Today, you will find curl pre-installed in most of the Linux distros. Curl is quite a popular package and is available for any Linux distro. However, there is no guarantee that curl is currently installed in your distro. Curl is open-source software. You can grab the curl source code and compile it manually.
The following process was demonstrated in Ubuntu. For an in-depth guide on compiling curl, check out the official curl documentation. Download the curl source code here.
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