I am having issues with cURL. I am using it in Applescript, but my script line doesn't even work in the terminal. It was working as of last week until it broke on Friday.
This is what I am using, it returns an empty string, no errors.
curl http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wx/afos/retreive.php?pil=RVAARX
That is the actual site I am trying to reach. If I copy and paste the URL into Safari it loads in the expected data.
The site is redirecting you, and you must provide the -L argument to force cURL to follow the redirection for command-line usage. The following works, and was tested on El Capitan 10.11.1 from the Terminal.
curl -L -o rvaarx_hydro.txt "http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wx/afos/retreive.php?pil=RVAARX"
Thanks for the reply. In the meantime I had gotten an updated URL from the provider and it fixed it. I will hang onto your fix for future reference though!
cURL in Terminal
