cURL Alternatives

Wget

GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP(S) and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive command line tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc.

Features:

• Command line interface
• Batch processing
• Command line
• Downloader

aria2

aria2 is a multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility. The supported protocols are HTTP(S), FTP, BitTorrent (DHT, PEX, MSE/PE), and Metalink. aria2 can download a file from multiple sources/protocols and tries to utilize your maximum download bandwidth. It supports downloading a file from HTTP(S)/FTP and BitTorrent at the same time, while the data downloaded from HTTP(S)/FTP is uploaded to the BitTorrent swarm.

Features:

• Ad-free
• Command line
• Command line interface
• Downloader
• Lightweight
• Support for Multiple protocols
• Support for Remote Control
• Resume interrupted downloads

Transmit

The gold standard of macOS file transfer apps just drove into the future. Transmit 5 is here. Upload, download, and manage files on tons of servers with an easy, familiar, and powerful UI. It’s quite good. Transmit now connects to 11 new cloud services, like Backblaze B2, Box, Google Drive, DreamObjects, Dropbox, Microsoft Azure, and Rackspace Cloud Files. And yes, Transmit still handles the classics — FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, and S3 — better than any.

Features:

• Support for SFTP
• Support for FTP
• File-sync
• File transfer
• Mount FTP drives
• Ssl

HTTPie

HTTPie (pronounced aitch-tee-tee-pie) is a command line HTTP client. Its goal is to make CLI interaction with web services as human-friendly as possible. It provides a simple http command that allows for sending arbitrary HTTP requests using a simple and natural syntax, and displays colorized output. HTTPie can be used for testing, debugging, and generally interacting with HTTP servers.

Features:

• Command line interface
• Web Testing

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. In addition to features common in advanced FTP clients, such as recursively mirroring entire directory trees, location bookmarks and resuming downloads, lftp also supports more advanced functionality.

Features:

• Command line interface
• File sharing
• File transfer
• Support for SFTP

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).

Features:

• Downloader
• Firefox Extensions

RESTClient

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

DPLOY

DPLOY is an FTP/SFTP deployment tool built in node.js Uploads the latest changes by comparing the version on your server with your git repository.

Truck - Rsync Client

A graphical user interface for rsync, which looks-and-feels like a standard FTP client, but uses the rsync protocol ‘under the hood’ to boost transfer speeds. In technical terms, it’s an SSH browser with an rsync transfer engine. Features – Upload and download via rsync by simply pointing and clicking. – Browse, rename, move and delete remote files. – Works over an encrypted SSH tunnel (no setup required). – Includes rsync 3.1.2. – Connects to any remote machine.

Features:

• Developer Tools
• Drag n drop