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curl/curl

A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, MQTTS, POP3, POP3S, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features

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Momentum

How fast curl/curl is gaining stars, and where it lands on Trendshift and GitHub Trending

Activity and trending

Stars, forks and merged pull requests each day or month, lined up with the repository's rank on Trendshift Trending

Sep 6 – Nov 5, 2026

Stars +731 in 61 days

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Forks +188 in 61 days

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Merged PRs 10 in 61 days

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Trendshift Trendingwhere the repository ranked each day it made the top 25

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Stars, forks, merged pull requests and Trendshift Trending rank, by day
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Sun, Sep 6, 2026+12+40Not trending
Mon, Sep 7, 2026+27+40#14
Tue, Sep 8, 2026+6+30Not trending
Wed, Sep 9, 2026+15+10Not trending
Thu, Sep 10, 2026+6+40Not trending
Fri, Sep 11, 2026+6+20Not trending
Sat, Sep 12, 2026+8+40Not trending
Sun, Sep 13, 2026+6+20Not trending
Mon, Sep 14, 2026+1+20Not trending
Tue, Sep 15, 2026+4+11Not trending
Wed, Sep 16, 2026+12+11Not trending
Thu, Sep 17, 2026+9+50Not trending
Fri, Sep 18, 2026+7+30Not trending
Sat, Sep 19, 2026+11+50Not trending
Sun, Sep 20, 2026+10+30Not trending
Mon, Sep 21, 2026+0+14Not trending
Tue, Sep 22, 2026+7+30Not trending
Wed, Sep 23, 2026+12+20Not trending
Thu, Sep 24, 2026+5+50Not trending
Fri, Sep 25, 2026+10+20Not trending
Sat, Sep 26, 2026+14+20Not trending
Sun, Sep 27, 2026+14+30Not trending
Mon, Sep 28, 2026+2+20Not trending
Tue, Sep 29, 2026+23+20Not trending
Wed, Sep 30, 2026+2+40Not trending
Thu, Oct 1, 2026+4+20Not trending
Fri, Oct 2, 2026+3+50Not trending
Sat, Oct 3, 2026+38+10#13
Sun, Oct 4, 2026+51+10#11
Mon, Oct 5, 2026+15+40Not trending
Tue, Oct 6, 2026+28+50Not trending
Wed, Oct 7, 2026+5+20Not trending
Thu, Oct 8, 2026+7+50Not trending
Fri, Oct 9, 2026+5+40Not trending
Sat, Oct 10, 2026+10+70Not trending
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Tue, Oct 13, 2026+16+20Not trending
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Thu, Oct 15, 2026+19+30Not trending
Fri, Oct 16, 2026+13+40Not trending
Sat, Oct 17, 2026+5+10Not trending
Sun, Oct 18, 2026+17+60Not trending
Mon, Oct 19, 2026+9+10Not trending
Tue, Oct 20, 2026+14+30Not trending
Wed, Oct 21, 2026+8+60Not trending
Thu, Oct 22, 2026+14+60Not trending
Fri, Oct 23, 2026+11+70Not trending
Sat, Oct 24, 2026+14+30Not trending
Sun, Oct 25, 2026+23+40Not trending
Mon, Oct 26, 2026+30+21Not trending
Tue, Oct 27, 2026+15+31Not trending
Wed, Oct 28, 2026+11+50Not trending
Thu, Oct 29, 2026+0+30Not trending
Fri, Oct 30, 2026+9+31Not trending
Sat, Oct 31, 2026+10+20Not trending
Sun, Nov 1, 2026+15+30Not trending
Mon, Nov 2, 2026+8+20Not trending
Tue, Nov 3, 2026+15+31Not trending
Wed, Nov 4, 2026+19+20Not trending
Thu, Nov 5, 2026+0+00Not trending
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  • 7Rank that day
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    • GitHub trending history

    Where the repository ranked on GitHub Trending, one dot for each day it was on a list

    Oct 8, 2023 – Apr 26, 2026Best #3

    #1#5#10#15#20#25
    Top 10
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    Mentions and achievements

    Where people are talking about curl/curl, and every badge it has earned
    1. Nov 21 post

      • curl trusted the hostname "localhost" instead of the wire. With a forward proxy, loopback isn't loopback, so the Secure cookie goes to the middleman. A name is not a route.

        Read full on X, posted by @geeknik

        @geeknik · x.com

    2. Oct 301 post

      • neovim one day, curl the next lol my fix for curl's Alt-Svc parser got merged by Daniel Stenberg. fixed percent-encoded protocol IDs being ignored, added validation for decoded control characters,…

        Read full on X, posted by @mathcuber21

        @mathcuber21 · x.com

    3. 11 days earlier
    4. Oct 191 post

      • Curl proposes "Every vulnerability report < HIGH is immediately made public"

        Read full on Hacker News

        Hacker News

    5. 2 months earlier
    6. Aug 311 post

      • Vssh: Add SSH:// scheme for remote command execution

        Read full on Hacker News

        Hacker News

    7. 1 month earlier
    8. Jul 301 post

      • Encrypted Client Hello

        Read full on Reddit

        r/MicrosoftEdge

    9. 23 days earlier
    10. Jul 71 post

      • This optimization is excellent for reducing tiny packets. But for latency-sensitive applications SSH, games, or interactive protocols that extra wait can noticeably increase response times.

        Read full on X, posted by @0x01_Muawia

        @0x01_Muawia · x.com

    11. 17 days earlier
    12. Jun 201 post

      • There is one piece of software running on 20 billion devices right now. Your phone uses it. Your car uses it. Your TV uses it. Your router uses it. NASA's Ingenuity helicopter on Mars uses it. It was…

        Read full on X, posted by @heynavtoor

        @heynavtoor · x.com

    13. 1 month earlier
    14. May 141 post

      • We built Curl-Quest to make learning curl easier through TUI-based quests in the terminal. I reached out to Daniel Stenberg (creator of curl) to share what we built, not really expecting much but he…

        Read full on X, posted by @mani_yadla_

        @mani_yadla_ · x.com

    15. May 131 post

      • 有趣的事情正在发生： Anthropic Mythos vs Anda Bot (DeepSeek v4 pro) @AndaBotHQ @deepseek_ai

        Read full on X, posted by @xzensh

        @xzensh · x.com

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