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download-cli
Advanced tools
Download and extract files
See download for the programmatic API and issue tracker.
$ npm install --global download-cli
$ download --help
Usage
$ download <url>
$ download <url> > <file>
$ download --out <directory> <url>
Example
$ download http://foo.com/file.zip
$ download http://foo.com/cat.png > dog.png
$ download --extract --strip 1 --out dest http://foo.com/file.zip
$ download --header 'authorization: Basic foo:bar' http://foo.com/file.zip
Options
-e, --extract Try decompressing the file
-o, --out Where to place the downloaded files
-s, --strip <number> Strip leading paths from file names on extraction
--filename <string> Name of the saved file
--proxy <string> Proxy endpoint
--header <string> HTTP header. Can be set multiple times
MIT © Kevin Mårtensson
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Download and extract files
The npm package download-cli receives a total of 2,521 weekly downloads. As such, download-cli popularity was classified as popular.
We found that download-cli demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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