I want to download an image accessible from this link: https://www.python.org/static/apple-touch-icon-144x144-precomposed.png
into my local system. Now, I'm aware that the curl
command can be used to download remote files through the terminal. So, I entered the following in my terminal in order to download the image into my local system:
curl https://www.python.org/static/apple-touch-icon-144x144-precomposed.png
However, this doesn't seem to work, so obviously there is some other way to download images from the Internet using curl
. What is the correct way to download images using this command?
curl
without any options will perform a GET request. It will simply return the data from the URI specified. Not retrieve the file itself to your local machine.
When you do,
$ curl https://www.python.org/static/apple-touch-icon-144x144-precomposed.png
You will receive binary data:
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In order to save this, you can use:
$ curl https://www.python.org/static/apple-touch-icon-144x144-precomposed.png > image.png
to store that raw image data inside of a file.
An easier way though, is just to use wget
.
$ wget https://www.python.org/static/apple-touch-icon-144x144-precomposed.png
$ ls
.
..
apple-touch-icon-144x144-precomposed.png