/rclone_copyurl

title: "rclone copyurl"
description: "Copy the contents of the URL supplied content to dest:path."
versionIntroduced: v1.43
# autogenerated - DO NOT EDIT, instead edit the source code in cmd/copyurl/ and as part of making a release run "make commanddocs"

> **Official documentation:** [https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_copyurl/](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_copyurl/)

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](/flags/) 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

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• [rclone](/commands/rclone/) - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.

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