# taf2/curb

Ruby bindings for libcurl

Repository: https://github.com/taf2/curb
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/curb
Language: Ruby
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2026-07-31T15:03:40+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 75/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 95, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6623, "days_push": 33, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1331, forks 235 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:24.326595+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: http-client, web-scraping
- domain: web-development, developer-tools, apis
- platform: ruby, windows
- tags: libcurl, ftp, curl-bindings, native-extension, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- taf2/curb (main) score 75

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:24.326595+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:45:21.584639+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/taf2/curb (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:24.326595+00:00, sha 6d4407127757)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.