The Best 20 cURL Alternatives

  • Transmit icon

    Transmit

    Transmit is an FTP client for Mac OS X and Mac OS Classic (which is unsupported). Developed by Panic, Transmit is shareware - after a 7 day trial period, some features of the product are disabled until it has been purchased.

    Commercial Mac OS X

    Support for SFTP Mount FTP drives
  • HTTPie icon

    HTTPie

    httpie - HTTPie is a CLI, cURL-like tool for humans. HTTPie (pronounced aych-tee-tee-pie) is a command line HTTP client. Its goal is to make CLI interaction with web services as human-friendly as possible.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • lftp icon

    lftp

    lftp is a command-line file transfer program which besides FTP, also supports FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, HFTP, FISH, and SFTP. A BitTorrent client is also built-in as torrent command.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux Xfce

    Support for SFTP Command line interface
  • cliget icon

    cliget

    Download files using curl or wget. This addon generates curl/wget commands that emulate the request as though it's coming from your browser allowing you to download protected files directly to a separate machine (e.g. server).

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Firefox

  • RESTClient icon

    RESTClient

    RESTClient can be used to test variety of HTTP communications and RESTful webservices. Friendly GUI, rich functionalities.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Free FTP icon

    Free FTP

    Free FTP is a simplified, intuitive, and best of all free FTP client! It uploads and downloads files quickly and reliably, keeps your FTP server settings in one place, and allows you to pause or cancel transfers.

    Free Windows

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    AbsoluteTelnet

    AbsoluteTelnet / SSH is a secure flexible terminal client with rock-solid emulations that is suitable for developers, administrators, or deployment across the enterprise.

    Commercial Windows

    Support for SFTP SSH
  • Guzzle icon

    Guzzle

    Guzzle is a PHP HTTP client that makes it easy to send HTTP requests and trivial to integrate with web services.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux GitHub

  • Rsync Client icon

    Rsync Client

    An SSH browser with an rsync transfer engine. It lets you point-and-click to rsync.

    Free Mac OS X

  • Blue Crab icon

    Blue Crab

    Blue Crab is a versatile app that you use to download the contents of a website to your Mac, in whole or in part, and then search it.

    Commercial

  • nugget icon

    nugget

    a lightweight, virustotal -enabled command-line downloader. knowing of no http://alternativein .

    Free Windows