cURL Cheat Sheet

---

---

cURL Cheat Sheet

Setup

you can use Git Bash in Windows if not exist in cmd

cURL version:

$ curl -V

Show cURL options:

$ curl --help

Get a single resource via URI:

$ curl https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1

Get a single resource via URI and show response header:

$ curl -i https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1

Show response header only:

$ curl -I https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1

####OR

$ curl --head https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1

Download response to file with a special name:

$ curl -o filename.txt https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1

Download response with limit size:

$  curl -O https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/megafamous.png

Download response with max size:

$  curl -O --limit-rate 1000B https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts

Send POST with data (-d or --data):

$ curl -X PUT -d "title=Hello&body=Hello World" https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts

Send request with method PUT To update data (-d or --data):

$ curl -X PUT --data "title=Hello01&body=Hello World Update" https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/2

Send request with method DELETE To delete item:

$ curl -X DELETE https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/2

basic authentication email:password

$ curl -u moemengaballa@gmail.com:12345678 https://site.com/login

basic authentication using token with curl

$ curl --header "Authorization: Bearer xxxxxxxxx" https://host.com/

request if url redirect (301 Moved) complete to redirect

$ curl -L https://google.com

upload file as FileZilla ftp to server

$ curl -u test@host.com:123456 -T hello.txt ftp://ftp.host.com

download file as FileZilla ftp

$ curl -u test@host.com:123456 -O hello.txt ftp://ftp.host.com/hello.txt

to ignore SSL certificate issues

$ curl --insecure https://www.google.com.eg/

Get SSL certificate information from web remote site

$ curl --insecure -vvI https://www.google.com.eg/

---

Reference

• cURL Docs
• Basic cURL Tutorial

---