Download file from url using command prompt

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Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. Reducing the weight of our footer. Linked Related Straight to the point. But how do you do that when you are on a Windows machine? Let me introduce you to cURL, pronounced curl. But I just want to download the file on Windows so let's just learn how to do that. Easy right? Now you can download files right from the command line all by simply using your keyboard. It is time I confess. This is not the curl tool you are using. It's only an alias.

In reality, we are calling the command Invoke-WebRequest. But hey! It works, so we don't care. You can call it in its native format if you want to. Did you like this article? You can buy me a coffee. Share your insightful comments here. One thing I am learning the hard way is, if you don't write it down you will forget it.

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I have to search through multiple tutorials to find the right values to add to my settings. This is my attempt to document as much as possible so I can come back here to refresh my mind, and you can help yourself too of course. Andy Jun 20 :. Ibrahim Jun 20 :. Manish Oct 2 :.

Ibrahima Diallo Oct 2 :. Manish I just tested it by downloading a jpeg file with curl, wget, and Invoke-WebRequest and the sizes are all the same. There is no extra compression with Invoke-WebRequest , all it does is download the file as is.