Linux: curl (download web page)
Download One Web Page
# download a html page curl -O http://example.org/xyz/cat.html
Download Image Sequence
# download all jpg files named cat01.jpg to cat20.jpg curl -O http://example.org/xyz/cat[01-20].jpg
# download all jpg files named cat1.jpg to cat20.jpg curl -O http://example.org/xyz/cat[1-20].jpg
Other Useful Options
--referer http://example.org/- Set a referer (that is, a link you came from). Some sites refuse to show content without this.
--user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:103.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/103.0"- Set user agent. Some sites refuse to show content without this.
🟢 TIP: curl cannot be used to download entire website. Use wget for that.
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curl -h for help.
curl -h Usage: curl [options...] <url> -d, --data <data> HTTP POST data -f, --fail Fail fast with no output on HTTP errors -I, --head Show document info only -H, --header <header/@file> Pass custom header(s) to server -h, --help <subject> Get help for commands -o, --output <file> Write to file instead of stdout -O, --remote-name Write output to file named as remote file -i, --show-headers Show response headers in output -s, --silent Silent mode -T, --upload-file <file> Transfer local FILE to destination -u, --user <user:password> Server user and password -A, --user-agent <name> Send User-Agent <name> to server -v, --verbose Make the operation more talkative -V, --version Show version number and quit This is not the full help; this menu is split into categories. Use "--help category" to get an overview of all categories, which are: auth, connection, curl, deprecated, dns, file, ftp, global, http, imap, ldap, output, pop3, post, proxy, scp, sftp, smtp, ssh, telnet, tftp, timeout, tls, upload, verbose. Use "--help all" to list all options
Download file from web
- Linux: wget (download web page)
- Linux: curl (download web page)
- PowerShell: download webpage, Invoke-WebRequest, curl, wget