Can someone please explain what is this ? https://curl.se/

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[–] 7 points 11 months ago (5 children)

It's a program to download stuff from the web. It is very flexible. You can tell it to use cookies, post form data, upload and download files. It can do basically everything a web browser does without a graphical user interface.

It is built into many software pieces. And developers love it to test stuff.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    @bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de exactly.... I wish to avoid browsers and GUIs as far as I can.... So this tickled my curiosity........

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Believe me, you aren't going to get used to nor enjoy "browsing" the web with curl. It's not what you think it is.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago

    For that I would rather recommend a terminal browser like lynx, w3m or links2 in example. curl is more like a single web request to download one piece of raw file (an html page or an image in example). It is not meant to interpret websites and display results. If you want save webpages for offline view, then something like wget.

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