forum

home / developersection / forums / how to install and use curl on windows?

Ask Question
Utpal Vishwas

Utpal Vishwas

Follow
I am Utpal Vishwas from Uttar Pradesh. Have completed my B. Tech. course from MNNIT campus Prayagraj in 2022. I have good knowledge of computer networking.

Can you answer this question?

Answer

1 Answers

Aryan Kumar

Aryan Kumar

15-Jul-2023

Sure, here are the steps on how to install and use cURL on Windows:

Step 1: Download cURL

You can download cURL from the cURL website: https://curl.se/download.html. There are two versions of cURL available for Windows: a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version. You need to download the version that is compatible with your Windows installation.

Step 2: Extract the cURL files

Once you have downloaded the cURL files, extract them to a folder of your choice. The extracted files will include a curl.exe file, which is the cURL command-line executable.

Step 3: Add cURL to your PATH environment variable

In order to be able to run cURL from the command prompt, you need to add the curl.exe file to your PATH environment variable. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Open the Windows System Properties dialog box.
  2. Click on the Advanced tab.
  3. Click on the Environment Variables button.
  4. In the System Variables section, select the Path variable.
  5. Click on the Edit button.
  6. In the Edit Environment Variable dialog box, add the path to the folder where you extracted the cURL files to the end of the Path variable. For example, if you extracted the cURL files to the C:\curl folder, you would add C:\curl to the end of the Path variable.
  7. Click on the OK button to save your changes.

Step 4: Use cURL

Now that you have installed and configured cURL, you can use it from the command prompt. To do this, open a command prompt and type the following command:

curl <url>

For example, to curl the website www.google.com: https://www.google.com, you would type the following command:

curl https://www.google.com

This will download the contents of the website and display them in the command prompt.

Here are some of the most common cURL commands:

  • curl -v will display verbose output, which can be helpful for debugging.
  • curl -o <file> will save the output of the curl command to a file.
  • curl -u <username>:<password> will use the specified username and password to authenticate to a website.
  • curl -X <method> will use the specified HTTP method to make the request. For example, to make a POST request, you would use the -X POST option.

For more information on cURL, you can refer to the cURL documentation: https://curl.se/docs/manpage.html.

Liked By