Tag Archives: curl

Perform FTP Operations via VBA Using curl

So in my previous post, I demonstrated how we could use curl through VBA to download files or entire web pages:

How-to Download a Webpage or a File Using Curl

A while back, I played around with curl to send e-mails: and was surprised at how relatively easy it was to use. I have previous posted a few ways to download content from the web, such as: but decided to play around with curl on this since I knew that this was supposed to be another one of its strengths.

Today, I thought we could explore using curl to perform various FTP operations:

VBA curl FTP commands

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curl Output Parsing Helper Function
Directory file listing
Check if a file exists
Check if a directory exists
Upload a file
Download a file
Delete a file
Make a directory
Delete a directory

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How-to Download a Webpage or a File Using Curl

A while back, I played around with curl to send e-mails:

VBA - Send Email Using Windows 10 Curl

In a recent discussion regarding automating e-mails in Access someone brought to my attention that Windows 10 has curl built into it, as of build 1803, which allows sending e-mails, amongst many other things. This got me curious if it could be a viable replace for say CDO Mail. As such, I did some research, development and testing and ended up with the following function:

and was surprised at how relatively easy it was to use.

I have previous posted a few ways to download content from the web, such as:

Download a File From The Internet

Today, I thought I’d expand a little on a post I made in 2013: to adapt the routine to download a copy of the file. This was actually brought upon by someone needing assistance in Experts-Exchange. The file in question makes no real difference, images, text files, … So this approach is very versatile and easy to use. The General Idea Based on the original sample, we can read the file using XMLHTTP and then we can simply use ADODB stream to save what we read back to a file.

but decided to play around with curl on this since I knew that this was supposed to be another one of its strengths.

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VBA – Send Email Using Windows 10 Curl

This got me curious if it could be a viable replace for say CDO Mail. As such, I did some research, development and testing and ended up with the following function:

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