daniel:// stenberg://"Announcing wcurl: a #curl wrapper to download files"
https://samueloph.dev/blog/announcing-wcurl-a-curl-wrapper-to-download-files/
flisk 🏳️🌈@bagder oh wonderful no more fiddling with curl flags to just download a file
emi@bagder ohhh, that is actually awesome!
Alexander Bochmann@bagder Oh my, I might finally get to stop using wget -nd ... ?
TeixiNice to read this:
'You know... "it's that wget alternative for when you want to use curl instead"'
and followed by:
'wcurl will come installed with the curl package from now on'
Congrats all team involved!
gullevek ☢️ 🇯🇵@bagder Oh yeah. Just what I need!
Bubu 
@bagder I would have liked wurl as a name, but oh well :D.
This seems like a nice shortcut/wrapper though.
Samuel Henrique
Stefan Eissing@bagder Upstream it!
Pierre Prinetti@pierreprinetti @bagder To make it part of curl and with that available to other distributions and people?
Curl is the ideal tool for downloading files and for interacting with HTTP APIs. Many people use two different tools just because their API specializes on one or the other use.
Functionally, you could often replace wget with a spicy Bash alias of curl.
So my point is: you are saying that the two-tools solution is THE solution to this API problem, so much so that it’s worth replicating it in a domain (the curl brand) you have complete control over. It’s surprising.
@pierreprinetti @bagder No, I am not putting out a dogma about anything.
I see that people made something that they consider useful. It is a script on top of curl, it seems to fit into what curl distributes.
On Debian is was already added to the curl distribution. So, if people using other platform also want it, it seems the curl project is the best place to keep and maintain it - assuming its author wants to, of course.
@pierreprinetti @icing @bagder There clearly are two mutually-exclusive needs for the CLI commands:
1) One that spits out the return in stdout by default
2) One that saves the output in a file by default
The use case is so common that people will naturally stick to the tool that doesn't require any parameters for the majority of the cases within that main goal (e.g.: retries by default). Thus it's impossible to have a single command addressing both issues at the same time.
Ben Zanin@bagder neato, thank you for mentioning this! Gave me a chance to offer a hopefully useful little behavior tweak to diminish potential surprise behavior, https://github.com/Debian/wcurl/pull/9
Schamschula@bagder Available for MacPorts as of yesterday!
SMillerNL@schamschula @bagder I'd love to say the same for Homebrew, but without any releases that'll be a tough sell.
Any chance we can get a tag to package it?
@bagder @SMillerNL @schamschula yes, that's going to be fixed later today along with some other changes (including non-linux support)
snaeqe@samueloph
@bagder
I vote for naming it "wurl", though, as already proposed in the previous comments 😁
@bagder
I vote for naming it "wurl", though, as already proposed in the previous comments 😁
@bagder @SMillerNL @schamschula
We now have tagged releases, besides non-linux support (we dropped getopt) and a few other things.
@samueloph @bagder @schamschula Thanks for that, Homebrew is going to merge it in https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/176667. One issue was the fact that it takes the first curl install in PATH, which was not new enough on our Linux CI.
@SMillerNL @bagder @schamschula sounds like you found out that wcurl doesn't work with an older curl release, is that right? If so, we should document this on our side (if not possible to address it), can you point me to the failing CI run and/or the curl version that it failed with, please?
@samueloph @bagder @schamschula we're using Ubuntu 22.04 as a base (which has curl 7.81.0). The CI run is replaced by a successful one unfortunately.
@SMillerNL @bagder @schamschula support for Ubuntu 22.04 should arrive at https://salsa.debian.org/debian/wcurl/-/merge_requests/6
We will try to document the minimum curl version required for wcurl for the next release (should happen in the next couple of days).
@samueloph @bagder @schamschula Cool, great work! Homebrew might still keep hardcoding the curl version since we can't be sure what the curl version is otherwise. But I'm sure this will make it easier to use for others.
@schamschula @bagder Awesome!!!!!
Troed Sångberg@bagder I need this in my life.
MarkAssPandi@bagder at first sounded like a joke to me ngl lmao
But then ig made sense tbh, I had the exact thing happen to me when I forgot flags for curl when I needed to quickly download a file and just installed wget lol, so yeah this is great
But then ig made sense tbh, I had the exact thing happen to me when I forgot flags for curl when I needed to quickly download a file and just installed wget lol, so yeah this is great
Christoph Stoettner@bagder I don't get it. A new binary because people can't remember the switches? Alias the command with switches and no extra binary needed.
alias wcurl='curl -L -O -C'
Yaksh Bariya@bagder I'm waiting for this 200 line simple bash script to explode into a 10k lines of pure bash warship!