curl-impersonate-win

A special build of curl for Windows that can impersonate Chrome and Safari.

Original idea and patches from https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate

Version

Current version based on:

• Curl (https://github.com/curl/curl): v7.84.0
• BoringSSL (https://github.com/google/boringssl): 3a667d10e94186fd503966f5638e134fe9fb4080

Environment

MSYS2 is needed to build binaries. Steps:

1. Download and install MSYS2 (https://www.msys2.org/) into folder c:\msys64\
2. Run MSYS2 from start menu and update packages with command: pacman -Suy
3. Install additional packages: pacman -S patch mingw-w64-x86_64-make mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake mingw-w64-x86_64-nasm mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc mingw-w64-x86_64-go

Build

1. Download and unpack curl and boringssl source code into according folders (see versions)
2. Run scripts patch_curl.bat and patch_boringssl.bat to patch source code
3. Run script build.bat to build binaries. Ready to use binaries are located within curl\bin folder.

In case if everything goes fine you should see this:

Run

There are couple scripts inside release archive. Each of them can impersonate different browser. For example:

curl_chrome104 https://www.google.com/search?q=cat --output google.html

curl_safari15_5 https://www.apple.com --output apple.html