cURL
| curl | |
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| Original author | Daniel Stenberg |
| Developer | Contributors to the curl project |
| Release | 1996 |
| Stable release | 8.22.0 
/ 2 September 2026 |
| Written in | C |
| Platform | 29 platforms (see § libcurl for details) |
| Type | Web client (supports e.g. HTTPS, and FTP) |
| License | curl license (inspired by the MIT License) and a fraction uses the ISC |
| Website | curl |
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cURL (pronounced like "curl", /kɜːrl/) is a free and open-source computer program for transferring data to and from Internet servers. It can download resources identified by URLs from a web server over HTTP and supports a variety of other network protocols, URI schemes, multiple versions of HTTP, and proxying. The project consists of a library (libcurl) and command-line tool (curl), which have been widely ported to different computing platforms. It was created by Daniel Stenberg, who is still the lead developer of the project.