Using curl with an unpredictable target filename

Question

The filename of my curl download target is unpredictable and globbing with an asterisk isn't possible. I can download the file using the following command, but only after I've determined its' name in advance:

curl -O -vvv -k -u user:password https://myURL/ws/myfile.zip

How can I tailor my curl command to succeed with an unpredictable target name?

Answer 1

There's no easy way to get a directory listing using HTTP. You can use curl to just print the HTML generated by the site. If there's an index with links to the files on that server, simply running

curl -s -u user:password https://myURL/ws/ | grep .zip

will print HTML-formatted links to the zip files available for download on that page.