pass curls progress/status data to a file

hello hackers again. please help me out once again.

i have a script which executes CURL to fetch a file from the web and instantly outputs the files content to STDOUT.

now my question -

can i somehow write the progress-status to a file?

so that curl acts silently (-s) and only puts fetched files content on STDOUT and the progress-data is put into a file which i can then parse with a seperate script?

i only found the --trace and --trace-ascii options which produce very big output, that is too much too handle.

maybe one of the pro�s here has a solution.

thanks in advance.