An incomplete list of applications that use libcurl. There are many more out
there. Many applications are also built on top of various libcurl bindings,
and they are not included here. Mail curl-web to get added to this list.
| Name |
Description |
Author |
| mulk |
Non-interactive multi-connection network downloader with image filtering and Metalink support |
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| mpd |
MPD is a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing
music. Through plugins and libraries it can play a variety of sound files
while being controlled by it's network protocol. |
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| Amanda |
a backup system that allows the administrator to set up a single master
backup server to back up multiple hosts over network to tape drives/changers
or disks or optical media. |
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| Libzypp |
ZYpp is a Linux software management engine with a powerful dependency
resolver and a convenient package management API. |
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| Sidewinder |
An open-source application framework that uses web standards
like XHTML, SVG and XForms instead of more complex languages, such as C++ or
Java, to create rich internet-facing applications and widgets. |
webBackplane |
| Liferea |
A simple and free Gtk desktop news aggregator for Unix and Linux |
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| XboxMediaCenter |
a free open source (GPL) multimedia player for the Xbox(TM) from Microsoft. |
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| Eiffel Studio |
An IDE for Eiffel development |
Eiffel Software |
| yava |
Yet Another V4L Application (or yava for short) is a lightweight
v4l framegrabber with support for TrueType fonts and ftp-upload. |
Kristian Gunstone |
| Gizmo |
an internet telephone, that is as simple as instant messaging |
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| metadl |
Metadl is a downloading plugin for NSIS |
Hampus Wessman |
| wubi |
Wubi is an unofficial Ubuntu installer for Windows |
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| Novobot |
heavy-duty RSS feed reader for Windows |
Gleb Dolgich |
| curl-loader |
Provides a HTTP/HTTPS load based on libcurl, simulating thousands and
tens of thousands of clients, each with its own source IP-address |
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| Sylpheed-Claws |
an email client (and news reader) that uses libcurl in at least three
plugins: vCalendar, RSSyl and Gtkhtml2Viewer |
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| Gnash |
a GNU Flash movie player |
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| YouGrabber |
a multi-threaded (POSIX Threads based) command line YouTube.com video downloader |
Quetzy Garcia |
| ytgrabcl |
You Tube Movie Grabber CL allows you to download movies from www.youtube.com |
Luca Sepe |
| fbida |
image viewer |
Gerd Knorr |
| libnxml |
a C library for parsing, writing and creating XML 1.0 and 1.1 files or streams. |
Andrea Marchesini |
| libTorrent |
a BitTorrent library written in C++ for *nix, with a focus on high performance and good code |
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| CurlFtpFS |
A FTP filesystem based on cURL and FUSE |
Robson Braga Araujo |
| News Notification |
A gtk based rss reader which notifies the user of new rss news via a popup window. |
Don Neumann |
| Shibboleth |
an open source implementation to support inter-institutional sharing of web resources subject to access controls |
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| OPeNDAP |
Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol |
OPeNDAP Inc |
| LaserNet |
LaserNet receives multiple formats of purchase orders and supplier
invoices for automatic handling and integration with the ERP system.
Uses libcurl for ftp and http upload/download.
|
EFS Technology |
| HyPhy |
A free multiplatform software package intended to perform maximum likelihood
analyses of genetic sequence data and equipped with tools to test various
statistical hypotheses. |
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| MiKTeX |
up-to-date TeX implementation for the Windows operating system |
Christian Schenk |
| XD640 |
Lightweight desktop environment and office suite |
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| Emma3D |
A free, open-source platform for creating and delivering real-time 3D rich media over the internet. |
Murat Aktihanoglu, Chris Marrin, Rob Myers and Rick Pasetto |
| BOINC |
A software platform for distributed computing using volunteered computer
resources. Used by popular project such as SETI@home, Climateprediction.net and IBM's World Community Grid.
|
BOINC team |
| AST |
a web-based application for
keeping track of stocks. It features a portfolio with dividend tracking,
worksheet to keep track of prospects, a stock comparison utility and a
search engine for the stock market. |
Michael Williamson |
| git |
an open source, distributed version control system |
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| Blue Frog |
spam "hit back" tool |
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| Paperboy-RSS |
the all around 'best' open source RSS reader |
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| LaRepubblicaDL |
A downloader for the Italian 'La Repubblica' newspaper |
Francesco Cosoleto |
| Gnu PG |
a complete and free replacement for PGP |
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| OpenOffice.org |
free "productivity suite" compatible with all major office suites. |
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| Xen |
a Virtual Machine Monitor for x86 that supports execution of multiple guest operating systems |
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| Clam AntiVirus (Clamav) |
a GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX |
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| Gravytris |
a 3D-tetris |
Andre Krause |
| Ensemblist |
a 3D puzzle game in which you have to model a given shape with geometric primitives that you must assemble with boolean operations (using constructive solid geometry) |
rixed |
| Luau |
Luau provides a backbone for disseminating software updates throughout a software project's userbase. |
David Eklund |
| logan's multimedia console |
a xine-lib and readline-based media player |
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| Raptor |
Raptor is a C library for parsing RDF syntaxes into RDF triples. |
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| nALFS |
nALFS is interactive, ncurses-based application used for parsing the ALFS profiles (simple instructions in XML) |
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| DCTC |
DCTC (Direct Connect Text Client) is a library that gives access to the direct connect world |
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| libmsn |
libmsn is a C++ library for Microsoft's MSN Messenger service. It provides a high-level interface that allows an application to access instant messaging features with ease. |
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| MusicImage |
MusicImage communicates with Apple's iTunes application on
MacOS X to provide users with the ability to show anyone on the Web
what music they are listening to - uses libcurl for communication with
its server. |
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| NetMate |
NETMATE (Network Measurement and Accounting System) is a flexible and extensible network measurement tool (meter). It can be used for accounting, delay/loss measurement, packet capturing and much more. |
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| httpup |
httpup is a simple program to synchronize data in one direction |
Johannes Winkelmann |
| Discover |
Discover is a hardware identification system based on the libdiscover2 library. Discover provides a flexible interface that programs can use to report a wide range of information about the hardware that is installed on a Linux system. |
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| bidbuddy |
Pay per click search engine bid management system checks and updates
keyword bids on most major engines. Uses Curl to retrieve keyword bid
data from secure xml feeds and to post back updates. |
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| grip |
Grip is a cd-player and cd-ripper for the Gnome desktop.
|
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| HTTP Header Lint |
Httplint performs various checks on HTTP/1.1 headers returned by a server.
|
James Bursa. |
| Aegis |
A Software
Configuration Management System, with a process which includes code
reviews and automated testing. Aegis supports distributed development.
|
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| UnrealIRCd |
An Open Source (GPL) Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server with numerous
features. UnrealIRCd uses libcurl to allow administrators to pull
configuration files off of a remote host.
|
UnrealIRCd Team |
| MapServer |
OpenSource development environment for building
spatially enabled Internet applications (a.k.a. webmapping). |
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| VolView |
An intuitive, interactive system for volume visualization cross-platform |
Kitware |
| CMake |
A cross-platform, open-source make system - uses libcurl for submitting testing results |
Kitware |
| QuIDScor |
an open source tool for correlating IDS events with
vulnerabilities detected by QualysGuard. |
Qualys |
| slapt-get |
an APT-like system for Slackware package management |
Jason Woodward |
| DigiGuide |
The most powerful and flexible TV and radio guide for the UK and Ireland |
GipsyMedia Ltd |
| darcs |
Yet another replacement for CVS, written in Haskell. |
David Roundy |
| RadioLover |
Mac OS X Internet Radio Recorder |
Bitcartel |
| Habitat |
a performance management system which captures, stores, and
visualises table-based time series data. |
system garden |
| OpenSAML |
an Open Source Security Assertion Markup Language implementation |
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| Gnosi |
Gnome2 Software Installer |
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| NetSurf |
an open-source web browser for RISC OS. |
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| Ensemblist |
Puzzle game based on constructive solid geometry |
Rixed, Dom. William |
| YPOPs! |
YPOPs! is an open-source initiative to provide free POP3 and SMTP access to your Yahoo! Mail account. |
Anuj Seth, K Shyam, Daniel Bryg |
| NetDropbox |
NetDropbox is a file transfer service that makes it easy to send
large files to anyone with an email address. |
Max Campos |
| CodeWorker |
a parsing tool and a source code generator, available in Open Source
devoted to cover many aspects of the generative programming. |
Cedric Lemaire |
| iShell |
iShell is a professional rich-media authoring tool, ideal for
building custom Internet applications, advanced CD-ROM-Internet hybrids,
e-learning applications and Internet kiosks. |
Tribeworks |
| wmweather |
provides a monitor on a 64x64 mini window that displays the current weather. |
Martin A. Godisch |
| Comic Collection in C |
A system to automatically download, catalogue and view webcomics. |
Robert Synnott |
| MirrorX |
Mac OS X tool for mirroring |
pharmaLine |
| PicMeme |
PicMeme is a stand alone Windows application *and* Windows screen saver that crawls through internet web space and collects interesting pictures to be displayed on your screen. |
Jason Plumb |
| paintlib |
paintlib is a portable C++ class library for image loading, saving and manipulation. |
Ulrich von Zadow and other contributors |
| RAVL |
A huge image processing and computer vision library. |
Charles Galambos |
| gnaughty |
A GTK frontend to the movies section of sublimedirectory.com |
David Moore |
| Virex |
Macintosh anti-virus software |
McAfee |
| UrlGet |
UrlGet is a download manager that uses GTK+2, libxml2, and libcurl. |
Plus Huang |
| Xine |
xine is a free multimedia player. |
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| Snarl SNMP |
Snarl is a MIB module for net-snmp. snarl is an active URL monitoring web robot that will send its monitoring results as snmp traps |
Stephan Wenzel |
| Vaayu |
Vaayu is a software based Intrusion Detection System (IDS) stress tool to generate attacks for an IDS in an operational environment. |
Latha Krishnamurthi |
| PHPAUTHNET |
The most widely used script for processing transactions through the
authorize.net gateway
|
Unknown Designs Inc. |
| streamtuner |
streamtuner is a stream directory browser. It will connect to a source
(probably a web server) and retrieve the list of available audio streams.
|
Jean-Yves Lefort |
| DataShift |
DataShift is a win32 application which is part of our client-server system to
generate HTML, Flash and PDF webcontent. Libcurl is being used for all
communication between DataShift and the server application. |
NeptuneLabs, Germany |
| gSpinner |
gSpinner is a horrible hack that uses trplayer, RealPlayer 7 and up, and libcurl to simulate the interface of Spinner Lite, a Web-based interface to
the Spinner.com Internet "radio" service. |
Jeremy Latt |
| Aku |
Aku is a download queue that handles HTTP and FTP downloads. It listens for URLs on a FIFO and queues them up, downloading a set number at a time. |
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| AlsaPlayer |
pcm audio player for Linux and other similar systems |
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| DevProxy |
A small (<500kb) Win32 anonymous proxy server |
Thomas P. Harty |
| IPWatcher |
around-the-clock website monitoring |
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| OpenOffice.org Dictionary Installer |
OpenOffice.org Dictionary Installer for Unix |
Jonathan Hudson |
| Motion |
A software motion detector using input from video4linux devices and/or from webcams |
pe1rxq at amsat.org |
| pam_http |
PAM module using HTTP Basic authentication |
Kragen Sitaker |
| EmBrowser |
EmBrowser has been developed from the ground up, targeting
the Linux OS and designed to achieve small size and high performance. It is
built around a small browser core, but with loadable extension modules to
support full-featured web browsing. |
Emsoft Limited |
| Xinergie Client Framework |
A generic framework for web-accessible XML-based services |
Machina Networks |
| TA-LIB |
A set of C/C++ libraries allowing to manage and process stock/future market data. |
fortier at ta-lib.org |
| MEFT - Mass E-Gold Pledge Fulfillment |
MEFT is a tool to make donating money through the internet easier. |
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| LANforge FIRE |
The LANforge-FIRE platform can generate FTP, HTTP, TCP/IP, UDP/IP, Ethernet and custom payloads. |
Candela Technologies |
| Vorbis Tools |
These tools will allow you to play, encode and manage Ogg Vorbis files. |
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| Watson |
Mac OS X application that puts a GUI over several useful
Internet services. Makes use of CurlHandle |
Dan Wood |
| Grub-Client |
an open source, distributed internet crawler |
"Team Grub" |
| NetMess |
NetMess is a p2p file sharing system. |
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| komhem |
automates login to the cable/ADSL provider Telia Comhem |
Olov Johansson |
| mod_xslt |
XML and XSL "stuff" for Apache |
ttate_at_kt.jaist.ac.jp |
| The Phoenix Program |
Phoenix program runs as screensaver on your desktop and let us use it when you dont (for computations of scientific interest). |
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| DaVinci |
DaVinci is a journalling client. It works as a stand-alone journal manager, or with online journalling systems such as Advogato and LiveJournal. |
John Tunison |
| Debian ARchiving Tool |
dart is used to mirror source (project is now dead) |
Glenn McGrath |
| XML-RPC for C and C++ |
xmlrpc-c is an XML-RPC implementation for C and C++! (*surprise*) |
Eric Kidd |
| libcomprex |
libcomprex library transparently handles automatic compression and decompression of files |
chipx86_at_portaldesign.net |
| logjam |
a GTK client for LiveJournal.com |
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| Open Packages |
The New Standard for Open Source binaries |
a whole bunch of people |
| SOAP to CORBA bridge |
generic SOAP to CORBA Open Source bridge project |
LifeLine Networks |
| mod_curltunnel |
small apache reverse proxy module |
Jukka Pihl |
| eSOAP |
Embedded SOAP toolkit |
Rosimildo daSilva |
| curl |
Command line tool to transfer files using URL syntax |
Daniel Stenberg |
| PreViking |
A telephony daemon |
Zaheer Merali |
| MandrakeUpdateRobot
|
A console based MandrakeUpdate. This tool enables automatic retrieval of updates (including the dependencies too) |
prana at cyest.org |
| wmget |
wmget (formerly wmcurl) is a dock app for the GNU Window Maker window manager which makes it more convenient to perform long downloads in the background. |
Aaron Trickey |
| FFTS |
The Finicky Financial Trading System (FFTS) is an open-source front-office trading and risk management system |
Mark Higgins |
| camE |
camE is a Webcam grabber designed for video4linux devices |
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