## * Download multiple URLs in parallel
if the installed curl's version is \>= 7.66.0 (--parallel);
+## * Use a total number of 5 parallel connections to the same protocol + hostname + port number target
+ if the installed curl's version is \>= 8.16.0 (--parallel-max-host);
+
## * Follow redirects;
## * Automatically choose a filename as output;
**wcurl --curl-options="--progress-bar --http2" example.com/filename.txt**
-Resume from an interrupted download (if more options are used, this needs to
-be the last one in the list):
+* Resume from an interrupted download. The options necessary to resume the download (`--clobber --continue-at -`) must be the **last** options specified in `--curl-options`. Note that the only way to resume interrupted downloads is to allow wcurl to overwrite the destination file:
+
+**wcurl --curl-options="--clobber --continue-at -" example.com/filename.txt**
+
+Download multiple files without a limit of concurrent connections per host (the default limit is 5):
-**wcurl --curl-options="--continue-at -" example.com/filename.txt**
+**wcurl --curl-options="--parallel-max-host 0" example.com/filename1.txt example.com/filename2.txt**
# AUTHORS
# Stop on errors and on usage of unset variables.
set -eu
-VERSION="2025.05.26"
+VERSION="2025.09.27"
PROGRAM_NAME="$(basename "$0")"
readonly PROGRAM_NAME
# Extra curl options provided by the user.
# This is set per-URL for every URL provided.
-# Some options are global, but we are erroring on the side of needlesly setting
+# Some options are global, but we are erroring on the side of needlessly setting
# them multiple times instead of causing issues with parameters that needs to
# be set per-URL.
CURL_OPTIONS=""
is_subset_of()
{
case "${1}" in
- *[!${2}]*|'') return 1;;
+ *[!${2}]* | '') return 1 ;;
esac
}
decode_out="${decode_out}${decode_hex2}"
# Skip decoding if this is a control character (00-1F).
# Skip decoding if DECODE_FILENAME is not "true".
- if is_subset_of "${decode_hex1}" "23456789abcdefABCDEF" && \
- is_subset_of "${decode_hex2}" "0123456789abcdefABCDEF" && \
- [ "${DECODE_FILENAME}" = "true" ]; then
+ if is_subset_of "${decode_hex1}" "23456789abcdefABCDEF" \
+ && is_subset_of "${decode_hex2}" "0123456789abcdefABCDEF" \
+ && [ "${DECODE_FILENAME}" = "true" ]; then
# Use printf to decode it into octal and then decode it to the final format.
decode_out="$(printf "%b" "\\$(printf %o "0x${decode_hex1}${decode_hex2}")")"
fi
# If what remains contains a slash, there's a path; return it percent-decoded.
case "${hostname_and_path}" in
# sed to remove everything preceding the last '/', e.g.: "example/something" becomes "something"
- */*) percent_decode "$(printf %s "${hostname_and_path}" | sed -e 's,^.*/,,')";;
+ */*) percent_decode "$(printf %s "${hostname_and_path}" | sed -e 's,^.*/,,')" ;;
esac
# No slash means there was just a hostname and no path; return empty string.
}
{
CMD="curl "
- # Store version to check if it supports --no-clobber and --parallel.
+ # Store version to check if it supports --no-clobber, --parallel and --parallel-max-host.
curl_version=$($CMD --version | cut -f2 -d' ' | head -n1)
curl_version_major=$(echo "$curl_version" | cut -f1 -d.)
curl_version_minor=$(echo "$curl_version" | cut -f2 -d.)
- CURL_HAS_NO_CLOBBER=""
- CURL_HAS_PARALLEL=""
+ CURL_NO_CLOBBER=""
+ CURL_PARALLEL=""
# --no-clobber is only supported since 7.83.0.
# --parallel is only supported since 7.66.0.
+ # --parallel-max-host is only supported since 8.16.0.
if [ "${curl_version_major}" -ge 8 ]; then
- CURL_HAS_NO_CLOBBER="--no-clobber"
- CURL_HAS_PARALLEL="--parallel"
- elif [ "${curl_version_major}" -eq 7 ];then
+ CURL_NO_CLOBBER="--no-clobber"
+ CURL_PARALLEL="--parallel"
+ if [ "${curl_version_minor}" -ge 16 ]; then
+ CURL_PARALLEL="--parallel --parallel-max-host 5"
+ fi
+ elif [ "${curl_version_major}" -eq 7 ]; then
if [ "${curl_version_minor}" -ge 83 ]; then
- CURL_HAS_NO_CLOBBER="--no-clobber"
+ CURL_NO_CLOBBER="--no-clobber"
fi
if [ "${curl_version_minor}" -ge 66 ]; then
- CURL_HAS_PARALLEL="--parallel"
+ CURL_PARALLEL="--parallel"
fi
fi
- # Detecting whether we need --parallel. It's easier to rely on
+ # Detecting whether we need --parallel. It's easier to rely on
# the shell's argument parsing.
# shellcheck disable=SC2086
set -- $URLS
- if [ "$#" -gt 1 ]; then
- CURL_PARALLEL="$CURL_HAS_PARALLEL"
- else
+ # If there are less than two URLs, don't set the parallel flag.
+ if [ "$#" -lt 2 ]; then
CURL_PARALLEL=""
fi
[ -z "${OUTPUT_PATH}" ] && OUTPUT_PATH=index.html
fi
# shellcheck disable=SC2086
- set -- "$@" ${NEXT_PARAMETER} ${PER_URL_PARAMETERS} ${CURL_HAS_NO_CLOBBER} ${CURL_OPTIONS} --output "${OUTPUT_PATH}" "${url}"
+ set -- "$@" ${NEXT_PARAMETER} ${PER_URL_PARAMETERS} ${CURL_NO_CLOBBER} --output "${OUTPUT_PATH}" ${CURL_OPTIONS} "${url}"
NEXT_PARAMETER="--next"
done
OUTPUT_PATH="${opt}"
;;
- -o|-O|--output)
+ -o | -O | --output)
shift
HAS_USER_SET_OUTPUT="true"
OUTPUT_PATH="${1}"
;;
- -o*|-O*)
+ -o* | -O*)
opt=$(printf "%s\n" "${1}" | sed 's/^-[oO]//')
HAS_USER_SET_OUTPUT="true"
OUTPUT_PATH="${opt}"
DECODE_FILENAME="false"
;;
- -h|--help)
+ -h | --help)
usage
exit 0
;;
- -V|--version)
+ -V | --version)
print_version
exit 0
;;