Run cURL commands from Windows console

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Is there a way to install cURL in Windows in order to run cURL commands from the command prompt

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If you are not into Cygwin  you can use native Windows builds  Some are here  curl Download Wizard

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Download the  exe file from https   cygwin com install html for cygwin  a large collection of GNU and Open Source tools which provide functionality similar to a Linux distribution on Windows     Run the  exe file    While installing you will get in a step to select packages  In the select package window --  change the view to  Not installed  and search for curl  click on the necessary packages to install by clicking on the  new  column for the package --  you can see the version number and then click next    see the image attached below   After finishing the installation click on the cygwin to open the curl console on windows and work on curl commands

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Go to curl Download Wizard Select curl executable  Select Win32 or Win64 Then select package for it Eg generic cygwin  as per your requirement Then you will have to select version  You can select unspecified  This will directly take you to download link which on click will give you popup to download the zip file  Extract the zip to get the executable  Add this folder in your environment variables and you are done  You can then execute curl command from cmd

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Install Git for windows Then use git bash to run curl commands

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With Windows 10 Insider build 17063 curl is available in the cmd and powershell since early 2018

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I was able to use this site  to easily download and install curl on my Windows machine  It took all of 30 seconds  I m using Windows 7  w  Admin privelages   so I downloaded curl-7 37 0-win64 msi from http   curl haxx se download html    Also  don t forget to restart your console terminal after you install curl  otherwise you will get the same error messages

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Assuming you are new to the game or are unable to install software because of security restrictions  you could use Scoop to install curl  From a powershell or command window run the following commands  Note this assumes that you have Powershell v3 0      The other cool advantage here is that this installs the software for just the current user    Set execution exception  Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Undefined -Scope CurrentUser  Install Scoop  iex  new-object net webclient  downloadstring  https   get scoop sh    Install curl  You may see a warning about a missing hash  but you should see a final message that cURL was installed successfully  scoop install curl  Test the install of curl  curl -L https   get scoop sh

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it should work perfectly fine if you would download it from  --http   curl haxx se dlwiz  type bin amp os Win64 amp flav MinGW64   -- FOR 64BIT Win7 XP OR from http   curl haxx se dlwiz  type bin amp os Win32 amp flav - amp ver 2000 2FXP  --- FOR 32BIT Win7 XP just extract the files to c  Windows and run it from cmd   C  Users WaQas gt curl -v google com   About to connect   to google com port 80   0      Trying 173 194 35 105      connected   Connected to google com  173 194 35 105  port 80   0   gt  GET   HTTP 1 1  gt  User-Agent  curl 7 28 1  gt  Host  google com  gt  Accept       gt    HTTP 1 0  assume close after body  lt  HTTP 1 0 301 Moved Permanently  lt  Location  http   www google com   lt  Content-Type  text html  charset UTF-8  lt  Date  Tue  05 Feb 2013 00 50 57 GMT  lt  Expires  Thu  07 Mar 2013 00 50 57 GMT  lt  Cache-Control  public  max-age 2592000  lt  Server  gws  lt  Content-Length  219  lt  X-XSS-Protection  1  mode block  lt  X-Frame-Options  SAMEORIGIN  lt  X-Cache  MISS from LHR-CacheMARA3  lt  X-Cache-Lookup  HIT from LHR-CacheMARA3 64003  lt  Connection  close  lt   lt HTML gt  lt HEAD gt  lt meta http-equiv  content-type  content  text html charset utf-8  gt   lt TITLE gt 301 Moved lt  TITLE gt  lt  HEAD gt  lt BODY gt   lt H1 gt 301 Moved lt  H1 gt  The document has moved  lt A HREF  http   www google com   gt here lt  A gt    lt  BODY gt  lt  HTML gt    Closing connection  0

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From Windows Command Prompt  run curl through Git Bash   C   Users  sizu  AppData  Local  Programs  Git  bin  sh exe  --login -i -c  curl https   www google com

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Folks that don t literally need the curl executable  but rather just need to e g  see or save the results of a GET request now and again  can use powershell directly  From a normal command prompt  type   powershell -Command   new-object net webclient  DownloadString  http   example com      which  while a bit wordy  is similar to typing  curl http   example com    in a more Unix-ish environment   More information about net webclient is available here  WebClient Methods  System Net    UPDATE  I like how ImranHafeez took this one step further in this answer  I d prefer a simpler cmd-script however  maybe creating a curl cmd file containing this    powershell -Command   new-object net webclient  DownloadString   1      which could be called just like the Unix-ish example above   curl http   example com

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If you have Git installed on windows you can use the GNU Bash     it s built in   https   superuser com questions 134685 run-curl-commands-from-windows-console  483964

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First you need to download the cURL executable  For Windows 64bit  download it from here and for Windows 32bit download from here  After that  save the curl exe file on your C  drive   To use it  just open the command prompt and type in   C  curl http   someurl com

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If you use the Chocolatey package manager  you can install cURL by running this command from the command line or from PowerShell   choco install curl

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Simplest answer    1  Download the curl binary here  https   curl haxx se download html  see the binary for your OS   Example      2  Create a folder  C  curl  then unzip all there     3  Edit the system variable called  Path  by adding   C  curl bin  in the end  Finished     Obs   I ve seen some guys telling to add   C  curl  but this way it s not possible to access curl exe

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I have also found that if I put the cygwin bin on my windows path I can run curl from a windows command line  It also will give you access to things like ls and grep

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Currently in Windows 10 build 17063 and later  cURL comes by default with windows  Then you don t need to download it and just use curl exe

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Visit download page https   curl haxx se download html - it s incredible Choose your sytem in list Don t forget SSL support  it s obvious now  e g  for https Unpack curl exe and  crt to C  Windows System32 Restart cmd Enjoy  gt  curl https   api stackexchange com   p s  If you want another folder to store executable check your paths  gt  echo  PATH

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Install git command line from here  When you install git in windows you will automatically get curl with it  You can check the installed version of curl using curl --version like this     This is a sample curl request which sends a string in a JSON object and get it encoded    curl https   api base62 io encode       --request POST       --header  Content-Type  application json        --data     data    Hello world

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Create batch file in windows and enjoy with cURL in windows      echo off echo You are about to use windows cURL  Enter your url after curl command below  set  p input  curl   cls echo  input  powershell -Command   new-object net webclient  DownloadString   input     pause

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For anyone looking for a quick solution  after having standard installed cygwin but finding out curl did not work on a win 10 x64 platform   Downloading this retired repository  extracting it and running      git-cmd bat   Worked like a charm  I assume it has the pre-installed option for curl

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I am may be bit late for this  but I am able to resolve my issue of curl at cmd for windows 10   I got help from below video tutorial https   www youtube com watch v qlTVMuONazs  Here is some explanation   Step 1  go to https   curl haxx se download html  Step 2  Search  Win64 - Generic  and download  Win64 x86 64 7zip  by  Darren Owen   Step 3  unzip the download file and install the certificate  ca-bundle crt  do not touch curl exe  Step 4  in windows go to  Control Panel  -   System  -   Advance system settings   Step 5  click on Envirnoment variables  Step 6  In System variable click on  Path  and paste the path of the file folder in my case it is  C  curl curl 7 53 1 openssl nghttp2 x64   And you are done    Don t Forgot to restart you system for one time

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