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.TH wcurl 1 &quot;2026-08-12&quot; wcurl
.SH NAME
\fBwcurl\fP \- a simple wrapper around curl to easily download files.
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBwcurl &lt;URL&gt;...\fP

\fBwcurl [\--curl\-options &lt;CURL_OPTIONS&gt;]... [\--dry\-run] [\--no\-decode\-filename] [\-o|\-O|\--output &lt;PATH&gt;] [\--] &lt;URL&gt;...\fP

\fBwcurl [\--curl\-options=&lt;CURL_OPTIONS&gt;]... [\--dry\-run] [\--no\-decode\-filename] [\--output=&lt;PATH&gt;] [\--] &lt;URL&gt;...\fP

\fBwcurl \-V|\--version\fP

\fBwcurl \-h|\--help\fP
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBwcurl\fP is a simple curl wrapper which lets you use curl to download files
without having to remember any parameters.

Call \fBwcurl\fP with a list of URLs you want to download and \fBwcurl\fP
picks sane defaults.

If you need anything more complex, you can provide any of curl\(aqs supported
parameters via the \fB\--curl\-options\fP option. Beware that you likely should be
using curl directly if your use case is not covered.

By default, \fBwcurl\fP does:
.IP &quot;* Percent-encode whitespace in URLs;&quot;
.IP &quot;* Download multiple URLs in parallel&quot;
.nf
if the installed curl's version is \&gt;= 7.66.0 (--parallel);
.fi
.IP &quot;* Use a total number of 5 parallel connections to the same protocol + hostname + port number target&quot;
.nf
if the installed curl's version is \&gt;= 8.16.0 (--parallel-max-host);
.fi
.IP &quot;* Follow redirects;&quot;
.IP &quot;* Automatically choose a filename as output;&quot;
.IP &quot;* Avoid overwriting files&quot;
.nf
if the installed curl's version is \&gt;= 7.83.0 (--no-clobber);
.fi
.IP &quot;* Perform retries;&quot;
.IP &quot;* Set the downloaded file timestamp&quot;
.nf
to the value provided by the server, if available;
.fi
.IP &quot;* Default to https&quot;
.nf
if the URL does not contain any scheme;
.fi
.IP &quot;* Disable curl's URL globbing parser&quot;
.nf
so {} and [] characters in URLs are not treated specially;
.fi
.IP &quot;* Percent-decode the resulting filename;&quot;
.IP &quot;* Use 'index.html' as the default filename&quot;
.nf
if there is none in the URL.
.fi
.SH OPTIONS
.IP &quot;--curl-options, --curl-options=\&lt;CURL_OPTIONS\&gt;...&quot;
Specify extra options to be passed when invoking curl. May be specified more
than once.
.IP &quot;-o, -O, --output, --output=\&lt;PATH\&gt;&quot;
Use the provided output path instead of getting it from the URL. If multiple
URLs are provided, resulting files share the same name with a number appended to
the end (curl &gt;= 7.83.0). If this option is provided multiple times, only the
last value is considered.
.IP --no-decode-filename
Do not percent\-decode the output filename, even if the percent\-encoding in the
URL was done by \fBwcurl\fP, e.g.: The URL contained whitespace.
.IP --dry-run
Do not actually execute curl, print what would be invoked.
.IP &quot;-V, \--version&quot;
Print version information.
.IP &quot;-h, \--help&quot;
Print help message.
.SH CURL_OPTIONS
Any option supported by curl can be set here. This is not used by \fBwcurl\fP; it
is instead forwarded to the curl invocation.
.SH URL
URL to be downloaded. Anything that is not a parameter is considered
an URL. Whitespace is percent\-encoded and the URL is passed to curl, which
then performs the parsing. May be specified more than once.
.SH EXAMPLES
Download a single file:

\fBwcurl example.com/filename.txt\fP

Download two files in parallel:

\fBwcurl example.com/filename1.txt example.com/filename2.txt\fP

Download a file passing the \fB\--progress\-bar\fP and \fB\--http2\fP flags to curl:

\fBwcurl \--curl\-options=&quot;\--progress\-bar \--http2&quot; example.com/filename.txt\fP

Resume from an interrupted download. The options necessary to resume the download
(\fI\--clobber \--continue\-at \-\fP) must be the \fBlast\fP options specified in \fI\--curl\-options\fP.
Note that the only way to resume interrupted downloads is to allow wcurl to overwrite
the destination file:

\fBwcurl \--curl\-options=&quot;\--clobber \--continue\-at \-&quot; example.com/filename.txt\fP

Download multiple files without a limit of concurrent connections per host (the default limit is 5):

\fBwcurl \--curl\-options=&quot;\--parallel\-max\-host 0&quot; example.com/filename1.txt example.com/filename2.txt\fP
.SH AUTHORS
.nf
Samuel Henrique \&lt;samueloph@debian.org\&gt;
Sergio Durigan Junior \&lt;sergiodj@debian.org\&gt;
and many contributors, see the AUTHORS file.
.fi
.SH REPORTING BUGS
If you experience any problems with \fBwcurl\fP that you do not experience with
curl, submit an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/curl/wcurl
.SH COPYRIGHT
\fBwcurl\fP is licensed under the curl license
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR curl (1),
.BR trurl (1)
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