If you're automating resource downloads for your project, you'll probably want to download more than one resource to the same directory, and probably from the same site.
We'll make use of the relatively popular curl (2.0.2) plugin to download multiple resources from the Internet. It provides the curl-dir task specifically to download multiple resources.
In this example, we'll work with the basic project structure we created in the Installing Grunt on a project recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Grunt. Be sure to refer to it if you are not yet familiar with its contents.
The following steps take us through downloading both the Grunt and Node.js logos into the logos directory.
We'll start by installing the package that contains the
curlplugin as per the instructions provided in the Installing a plugin recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Grunt.Now, we can add the following
curl-dirtask configuration, which will download the two logos...