Curl Examples — Webklip

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# Practical curl examples

## GET / POST JSON
curl https://httpbin.org/get
curl -X POST https://httpbin.org/post \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name":"webklip"}'

## Auth & headers
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" https://api.example.com/me
curl -u user:pass https://example.com/secret

## Save output / follow redirects
curl -L -o page.html https://example.com
curl -O https://example.com/file.zip

## Uploads
curl -F "file=@./notes.txt" https://example.com/upload

## Debugging
curl -v https://example.com          # request/response headers
curl -w "\nHTTP %{http_code} time %{time_total}s\n" -o /dev/null -s https://example.com

## Timouts
curl --connect-timeout 5 --max-time 30 https://example.com

Pro tip: add `-sS` for quiet output that still shows errors.