- In your browser, navigate to the cURL welcome page at http://curl.haxx.se and click Download.
The cURL website offers a wizard to find the appropriate version for your computer's operating system.
For this tutorial, the 64-bit generic, SSL-enabled & SSH enabled version for Windows is selected.
cf "curl-7.45.0-win64-mingw.7z" at http://curl.haxx.se/dlwiz/?type=bin&os=Win64&flav=-&ver=-&cpu=x86_64
- Uncompress the file to a specific location (by adding a new directory called "curl")
- Add the corresponding "curl\bin" directory to the environment variable PATH
- Invoke
curl.exe from a command window (in Windows, click Start > Run and then enter "cmd" in the Run dialog box), testing it with a website ; A cURL to the Google site should return the corresponding HTML file :curl www.google.fr
- You can enter
curl --help to see a list of cURL commands.- For example, to save the result from a curl command to localfile, we can use the o option :
curl -o [localfile] [URL]
You will find other practical cURL command examples at http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2012/04/curl-examples/
