taf2/curb

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1331 stars · 235 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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Curb provides Ruby-language bindings for libcurl, the fully-featured client-side URL transfer library, supporting both easy and multi modes. It offers HTTP GET/POST, FTP upload/download, and proxy tunneling with the advantage of handling timeouts without threads.

Use cases

• make http requests from ruby
• download files over ftp in ruby
• upload files via ftp
• perform concurrent http requests with curl multi
• fetch urls with strict timeouts without threads
• use ftp through an http proxy tunnel

When to choose

• you need libcurl's protocol breadth (http, ftp, proxies) in Ruby
• you need reliable request timeouts without spawning threads
• you need high-performance native HTTP transfers in Ruby

When to avoid

• you want a pure-Ruby dependency-free HTTP client
• you only need simple REST calls and prefer a higher-level API like faraday or httparty
• you need libcurl features beyond easy and multi modes

Facets

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http-client web-scraping web-development developer-tools apis ruby windows libcurl ftp curl-bindings native-extension linux macos

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