CURLOPT_WILDCARDMATCH(3)

NAME
CURLOPT_WILDCARDMATCH - directory wildcard transfers

SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_WILDCARDMATCH, long onoff);

DESCRIPTION
Set onoff to 1 if you want to transfer multiple files according to a filename pattern. The pattern can be specified as part of the CURLOPT_URL(3) option, using an fnmatch-like pattern (Shell Pattern Matching) in the last part of URL (filename).

By default, libcurl uses its internal wildcard matching implementation. You can provide your own matching function by the CURLOPT_FNMATCH_FUNCTION(3) option.

A brief introduction of its syntax follows:

* - ASTERISK
    ftp://example.com/some/path/*.txt

    matches all .txt files in the root directory. Only two asterisks are allowed within the same pattern string.

? - QUESTION MARK
    Question mark matches any (exactly one) character.

    ftp://example.com/some/path/photo?.jpg

[ - BRACKET EXPRESSION
    The left bracket opens a bracket expression. The question mark and asterisk have no special meaning in a bracket expression. Each bracket expression ends by the right bracket and matches exactly one character. Some examples follow:

    [a-zA-Z0-9] or [f-gF-G] - character interval

    [abc] - character enumeration

    [^abc] or [!abc] - negation

    [[:name:]] class expression. Supported classes are alnum,lower, space, alpha, digit, print, upper, blank, graph, xdigit.

    [][-!^] - special case - matches only '-', ']', '[', '!' or '^'. These characters have no special purpose.

    [[]] - escape syntax. Matches '[', ']' or 'e'.

    Using the rules above, a filename pattern can be constructed:

    ftp://example.com/some/path/[a-z[:upper:]\].jpg

PROTOCOLS
This functionality affects ftp only

EXAMPLE
extern long begin_cb(struct curl_fileinfo *, void *, int);
extern long end_cb(void *ptr);

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    /* turn on wildcard matching */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WILDCARDMATCH, 1L);

    /* callback is called before download of concrete file started */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CHUNK_BGN_FUNCTION, begin_cb);

    /* callback is called after data from the file have been transferred */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CHUNK_END_FUNCTION, end_cb);

    /* See more on https://curl.se/libcurl/c/ftp-wildcard.html */
  }
}

AVAILABILITY
Added in curl 7.21.0

RETURN VALUE
curl_easy_setopt(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.

CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see libcurl-errors(3).

SEE ALSO
CURLOPT_CHUNK_BGN_FUNCTION(3), CURLOPT_CHUNK_END_FUNCTION(3), CURLOPT_FNMATCH_FUNCTION(3), CURLOPT_URL(3)