Run cURL commands from Windows console

Question

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

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

1. Visit download page https://curl.haxx.se/download.html - it's incredible
2. Choose your sytem in list
3. Don't forget SSL support, it's obvious now, e.g. for https
4. Unpack curl.exe and .crt to C:\Windows\System32
5. Restart cmd
6. Enjoy > curl https://api.stackexchange.com

p.s. If you want another folder to store executable check your paths > echo %PATH%

Answer 4

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/

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

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"