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curl (version 8.0.0)

A Modern and Flexible Web Client for R

Description

Bindings to 'libcurl' for performing fully configurable HTTP/FTP requests where responses can be processed in memory, on disk, or streaming via the callback or connection interfaces. Some knowledge of 'libcurl' is recommended; for a more-user-friendly web client see the 'httr2' package which builds on this package with http specific tools and logic.

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install.packages('curl')

Monthly Downloads

1,500,703

Version

8.0.0

License

MIT + file LICENSE

Maintainer

Jeroen Ooms

Last Published

August 25th, 2026

Functions in curl (8.0.0)

parse_date

Parse date/time
handle_cookies

Extract cookies from a handle
ie_proxy

Internet Explorer proxy settings
parse_headers

Parse response headers
multi_download

Advanced download interface
multi

Async Concurrent Requests
multipart

POST files or data
nslookup

Lookup a hostname
send_mail

Send email
file_writer

Lazy File Writer
curl_upload

Upload a File
curl_download

Download file to disk
curl_parse_url

Normalizing URL parser
handle

Create and configure a curl handle
curl

Curl connection interface
curl_escape

URL encoding
curl_echo

Echo Service
curl_options

Listing curl features and options
curl_fetch_memory

Fetch the contents of a URL