curl

Send HTTP requests and receive responses, supports multiple protocols and authentication methods.

$ curl https://api.example.com/data

URLRequest method

GET

POST

PUT

PATCH

DELETE

HEAD

OPTIONS

Custom headers (-H)

Content-Type

Content-Type: application/json

Content-Type: multipart/form-data

Content-Type: application/xml

Content-Type: text/plain

Content-Type: application/octet-stream

Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Request body (-d)

Follow redirects (-L)Request compressed response (--compressed)

HTTP version

Default

HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1

HTTP/2

HTTP/3

HTTP/3 only

Examples

# GET request
curl https://api.example.com/users

# POST with JSON
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"name":"John"}' https://api.example.com/users

# Use cookies
curl -b "session=abc123" https://api.example.com/profile