rclone/docs/content/commands/rclone_copyurl.md

title, description, versionIntroduced

title	description	versionIntroduced
rclone copyurl	Copy the contents of the URL supplied content to dest:path.	v1.43

rclone copyurl

Copy the contents of the URL supplied content to dest:path.

Synopsis

Download a URL's content and copy it to the destination without saving it in temporary storage.

Setting --auto-filename will attempt to automatically determine the filename from the URL (after any redirections) and used in the destination path.

With --header-filename in addition, if a specific filename is set in HTTP headers, it will be used instead of the name from the URL. With --print-filename in addition, the resulting file name will be printed.

Setting --no-clobber will prevent overwriting file on the destination if there is one with the same name.

Setting --stdout or making the output file name - will cause the output to be written to standard output.

Setting --urls allows you to input a CSV file of URLs in format: URL, FILENAME. If --urls is in use then replace the URL in the arguments with the file containing the URLs, e.g.:

rclone copyurl --urls myurls.csv remote:dir

Missing filenames will be autogenerated equivalent to using --auto-filename. Note that --stdout and --print-filename are incompatible with --urls. This will do --transfers copies in parallel. Note that if --auto-filename is desired for all URLs then a file with only URLs and no filename can be used.

Troubleshooting

If you can't get rclone copyurl to work then here are some things you can try:

• --disable-http2 rclone will use HTTP2 if available - try disabling it
• --bind 0.0.0.0 rclone will use IPv6 if available - try disabling it
• --bind ::0 to disable IPv4
• --user agent curl - some sites have whitelists for curl's user-agent - try that
• Make sure the site works with curl directly

rclone copyurl https://example.com dest:path [flags]

Options

  -a, --auto-filename     Get the file name from the URL and use it for destination file path
      --header-filename   Get the file name from the Content-Disposition header
  -h, --help              help for copyurl
      --no-clobber        Prevent overwriting file with same name
  -p, --print-filename    Print the resulting name from --auto-filename
      --stdout            Write the output to stdout rather than a file
      --urls              Use a CSV file of links to process multiple URLs

Options shared with other commands are described next. See the global flags page for global options not listed here.

Important Options

Important flags useful for most commands

  -n, --dry-run         Do a trial run with no permanent changes
  -i, --interactive     Enable interactive mode
  -v, --verbose count   Print lots more stuff (repeat for more)

See Also

• rclone - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.