A simple curl wrapper which lets you use curl to download files without having to remember any parameters.
Simply call wcurl with a list of URLs you want to download and wcurl will pick sane defaults.
If you need anything more complex, you can provide any of curl's supported parameters via the --curl-options option. Just beware that you likely should be using curl directly if your use case is not covered.
By default, wcurl will:
- Encode whitespaces in URLs;
- Download multiple URLs in parallel if the installed curl's version is >= 7.66.0;
- Follow redirects;
- Automatically choose a filename as output;
- Avoid overwriting files if the installed curl's version is >= 7.83.0 (--no-clobber);
- Perform retries;
- Set the downloaded file timestamp to the value provided by the server, if available;
- Disable curl's URL globbing parser so {} and [] characters in URLs are not treated specially.