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Timo Tijhof

2025-08-27 04:21:48

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Inspired by the BBC Tech report from @tdp_org, I looked at Wikipedia.

Yesterday, Wikipedia received over 45 million requests made with curl, from 113 distinct curl releases.

Of these, 32 million use the default UA (e.g. curl CLI). The other 13 million embed libcurl with a longer UA string containing curl (e.g. GuzzleHttp/PHP, PycURL, UnityPlayer)

At 12 million, most are curl/7.88.1.

Raw data, queries, and scrub/cleaning parameters:
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Wikipedia web requests by user agents containing "curl/". Top 3: * curl/7.88.1 (12.5 million) * curl/7.85.0 (10 million) * curl/8.10.1 (8 millon)
Wikipedia web requests by curl user agent, over a 24 hour period. Top 3: * curl/7.88.1 (12.5 million) * curl/7.85.0 (10 million) * curl/7.54 (5 millon)
Wikipedia web requests by curl user agent from HTTP requests to wikimedia.org, wikipedia.org, and other Wikimedia Foundation projects on 2025-08-26. Ranging from curl/7.4.x (oldest) to curl/8.15.x (newest). Exact numbers in linked TSV files.
Wikipedia web requests by user agent containing "curl/". Ranging from curl/4.x (oldest) to curl/8.16.x (newest), and a bogus curl/3860.

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