Is there a way to download individual .apk packages from Alpine repos?

Solution 1:

For example for curl, try

apk update
apk fetch curl
apk add ./curl-7.61.1-r1.apk

Solution 2:

Here is a mirror list of servers, where you can download from:
http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/MIRRORS.txt

Packages can be downloaded from e.g.:
http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/latest-stable/community/x86_64/