Simplest Way To Install CURL On Windows Using Chocolatey

cURL is a computer software project providing a library (libcurl) and command-line tool (curl) for transferring data using various network protocols.

curl is used in command lines or scripts to transfer data. curl is also used in cars, television sets, routers, printers, audio equipment, mobile phones, tablets, settop boxes, media players and is the Internet transfer engine for thousands of software applications in over ten billion installations.

CURL is used daily by virtually every Internet-using human on the globe.

CURL is free and open source software and exists thanks to thousands of contributors and awesome sponsors.

Why there are other ways to install curl on Windows such as the MSYS2 method or the vcpkg method on Windows, one of the easiest quickest way to install curl, is to use chocolatey.

Using Chocolatey to install curl, is as simple as running a single line of command from your CLI.

As a Windows 10 user, you may already have CURL installed on your Windows machine since CURL comes installed with Windows 10. 

Windows 10 comes with the curl tool bundled with the operating system since version 1804. If you have an older Windows version or just want to upgrade to the latest version shipped by the curl project, you can download the latest official curl release for Windows from curl.se/windows and install that.

Now let us dive right into installing CURL using Chocolatey.

To install, open your CLI (Command prompt, Windows PowerShell) in elevated privilege and type the following command:

choco install curl

Yes! It is as simple as that.

You'll need to confirm it by pressing y for the installation to continue when you are prompted. The installation will terminate if you press n.

Curl installed successfully

You can check if CURL is already installed on your PC by entering curl --version in your CLI.

If you get an error message, it is possible CURL is not yet installed on your machine.

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