Making cURL work on Windows 7

Making cURL work on Windows 7

Writen by Abel Melquiades Callejo 

cURL is an awesome tool for software developers. It is used worldwide but most of the people who use it are Linux users so I decided to write this tutorial specific for Windows 7. The usage below is very exciting so just bare with the tutorial.

Installation

1. Download - Choose only one of the 2 links below then, Right Click > Save link as...
   32-bit cURL - (this is the safer choice)
   64-bit cURL
2. Extract the contents - extract the contents into an easy-to-remember location
   
   
3. Copy only the executable file curl.exe and Paste it to C:\Windows\System32
   
   
4. Congratulations! - Installation is as easy as that.

Usage

1. Open the Command Prompt - Click the Start Menu and in the textbox Type "cmd". Press Enter
   
   
2. Execute your first cURL - In the Command Prompt, Type "curl http://www.google.com"
   
   
   
   or you can also try publicly available data from Facebook
   http://graph.facebook.com/zuck
   http://graph.facebook.com/cocacola
   or even the public data from the World Bank
   http://api.worldbank.org/countries/ph?format=json

cURL is used mainly by developers to test the output of web services. Enjoy!