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cURL vs WeTransfer: What are the differences?

Developers describe cURL as "Command Line Tool and Library for Transferring Data With URLs". Used in command lines or scripts to transfer data. It is also used in cars, television sets, routers, printers, audio equipment, mobile phones, tablets, and is the internet transfer backbone for thousands of software applications affecting billions of humans daily. On the other hand, WeTransfer is detailed as "A cloud-based computer file transfer service". It is file sharing at its simplest. It works as if your e-mail account can support those large file sizes, you type in your e-mail address and the recipient’s e-mail address, add a message, attach the file, and send.

cURL and WeTransfer can be primarily classified as "File Transfer" tools.

cURL is an open source tool with 14.6K GitHub stars and 3.2K GitHub forks. Here's a link to cURL's open source repository on GitHub.

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What is cURL?

Used in command lines or scripts to transfer data. It is also used in cars, television sets, routers, printers, audio equipment, mobile phones, tablets, and is the internet transfer backbone for thousands of software applications affecting billions of humans daily.

What is WeTransfer?

It is file sharing at its simplest. It works as if your e-mail account can support those large file sizes, you type in your e-mail address and the recipient’s e-mail address, add a message, attach the file, and send.

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What are some alternatives to cURL and WeTransfer?
Postman
It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.
HTTPie
It is a Modern command line HTTP client – user-friendly curl alternative with intuitive UI, JSON support, syntax highlighting, wget-like downloads, extensions, etc
Flurl
It is a modern, fluent, asynchronous, testable, portable, buzzword-laden URL builder and HTTP client library for .NET.
FileZilla
It is a powerful and free software for transferring files over the Internet. It is a very popular FTP client and is used by webmasters from all over the world.
WinSCP
It is a popular SFTP client and FTP client for Microsoft Windows. Copy file between a local computer and remote servers using FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP, WebDAV or S3 file transfer protocols.
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