Alternatives to curl
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. curl itself: install curl.
jc
CLI tool and python library that converts the output of popular command-line tools, file-types, and common strings to JSON, YAML, or Dictionaries. Thi
python-tabulate
Pretty-print tabular data in Python, a library and a command-line utility. Repository migrated from bitbucket.org/astanin/python-tabulate
Core Data Editor
Core Data Editor lets you easily view, edit and analyze applications‘ data. Core Data Editor is compatible with Mac and iOS applications and supports
sha1dc
Library and command line tool to detect SHA-1 collision in a file
inotify-tools
inotify-tools is a library and a set of command-line programs providing a simple interface to inotify
tsung
Tsung is a high-performance benchmark framework for various protocols including HTTP, XMPP, LDAP, etc
sourcekitten
An adorable little framework and command line tool for interacting with SourceKit
yamlfmt
An extensible command line tool or library to format yaml files
twarc
A command line tool (and Python library) for archiving Twitter JSON
vegeta
HTTP load testing tool and library. It's over 9000!
monolith
⬛️ CLI tool and library for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file
hack-browser-data
Extract and decrypt browser data, supporting multiple data types, runnable on various operating systems (macOS, Windows, Linux)
http-server
A simple, zero-configuration, command-line http server
httpx
httpx is a fast and multi-purpose HTTP toolkit that allows running multiple probes using the retryablehttp library
libpostal
A C library for parsing/normalizing street addresses around the world. Powered by statistical NLP and open geo data
miniz
miniz: Single C source file zlib-replacement library, originally from code.google.com/p/miniz
heatshrink
data compression library for embedded/real-time systems
ghidra
Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework
fabric-ai
Fabric is an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI. It provides a modular system for solving specific problems using a crowdsourced set
leveldb
LevelDB is a fast key-value storage library written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values
httpie
🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more
lux
👾 Fast and simple video download library and CLI tool written in Go
folly
An open-source C++ library developed and used at Facebook
age
A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than curl — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
curl is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.