daniel:// stenberg://

#curl was download 10,467 times last year according to the Linux Foundation

😂

https://insights.linuxfoundation.org/project/curl/repository/curl-curl/popularity?timeRange=past365days&start=2025-03-09&end=2026-03-09&widget=package-downloads

Curl curl-curl Repository Package downloads | LFX Insights

Explore Curl curl-curl popularity with data on stars, forks, watchers, and adoption across the open source ecosystem.

Mar 9 at 3:39pmWeb
Show threaddaniel:// stenberg://Mar 9

it claims to get the data from ecosyste.ms for this, but ecosyste.ms has absolutely no idea how often curl is downloaded so I'm really curious what exactly this number is.

Frankly, I don't know what a curl download means. a curl package manager install? a docker pull? a tarball download? git clone? installing an OS that bundles curl? All of those?

Show threadPeter BindelsMar 9
@bagder I think it's counting downloads of tarballs or zipfiles from the github release page? Something like that.
Show thread"Musty Bits" McGeeMar 9

@bagder Hi Daniel,

A curl download is when you use `-o/-O` to download a file.

Hope this helps

Show threadsnaumsMar 9
@bagder click on learn more. And choosing the package source "NuGet" shows the same graph, so this is were your downloads are. Absolutely no docker pulls though.
Show thread✨メッツォ✨  Mar 9
@bagder According to their Popularity Metrics Explained page, the number of package downloads is “The total number of downloads for a project’s packages across supported package registries (e.g., PyPI, npm, Maven, Conda, Docker Hub).”
Popularity Metrics Explained | LFX Insights Documentation

Insights evaluates the health and trustworthiness of the world's most critical open source software.

Show threaddaniel:// stenberg://Mar 9
@mezzodrinker they say so, but that does not match the number. All such registries would say 0 downloads except docker hub, which should say something like 500,000 pulls/day.
Show threadwatteMar 9
@mezzodrinker @bagder pip install curl
Show threadBjörn FahllerMar 9

@bagder For comparison, my mocking library, for supporting unit testing, has around 10000 git clones/week, and its use is absolutely puny in comparison to curl. A git-clone counts as a download if the entire thing is just a set of header files, doesn't it?

Just shows how utterly disconnected from reality that number is.

Show threadAndrew NesbittMar 9
@bagder also they refused to work with or support ecosyste.ms, I have had no input on the way they use it, download counts for projects like curl are never going to be useful
Show threadSuperIluMar 9
@bagder this page keeps giving and giving 😂
Show threadGNUkko Sauvage (eris-ng) Mar 9
Congratulations! Ten thousand is a big number! 😁
Show thread/~gfaster Mar 9
@bagder I think I alone downloaded curl more times than that last year /j
Show threadTroed SångbergMar 9
@bagder Clearly an OCR error. The true number is 10^467 of course.
Show threadOzzelot Mar 9
@bagder
That was just by one guy at Sony
Show threadJérôme PetazzoniMar 9
@ozzelot @bagder that number seems vastly overestimated. Curly MacCurlface, who downloads curl every hour from a cronjob, is an outlier and shouldn't have been included in the data set! 😂
Show threadOzzelot Mar 9
@jpetazzo @bagder i hope they use curl to download curl!
Show threadJérôme PetazzoniMar 9
@ozzelot @bagder it's curls all the way down. At least that's what my hairdresser says
Show threadAljoscha Rittner (beandev)Mar 9
@bagder
The scale is millions? 🤔
Show threadmbpazMar 9
@bagder ...per second?
Show threadPeter BindelsMar 9
@bagder Ah - measuring as a Javascript (or similar) package. Impressively high for something that isn't.
Show threadFaraiweMar 9
@bagder ...in which DAY?
Show threadJan SchaumannMar 9
@bagder Congrats!! Your little project there is really taking off! Maybe some day soon other projects will notice and start using it. Keep it up - this "curl" thing has the potential to reach as many as 30,000 downloads next year!
Show threadAli ÇineMar 9
@bagder Hey Daniel, this weekend I attended a computer science conference in Istanbul. I participated in two workshops, Rust Blockchain and Go Backend, where I noticed that curl was used in both to download files. You came to mind during the class, and it reminded me that we need to contribute more to curl. The curl project operates quietly, without people really noticing it.
Show threadBilly O'NealMar 9
@bagder per day right? Per Day RIGHT?