Curl Examples

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curl examples

Usefull for REST

GET

curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" http://192.168.0.165/persons/person/1  

POST

curl -X POST -u admin:admin http://example.com/myconfigs/status -Hcontent-type:application/xml -d @/home/user/file.xml
curl -X POST -u admin:admin http://example.com/myconfigs/status -d "param1=value1&param2=value2"

PUT

curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -X PUT -d "phone=1-800-999-9999" http://192.168.0.165/persons/person/1  

curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -H "X-HTTP-Method-Override: PUT" -X POST -d "phone=1-800-999-9999" http://192.168.0.165/persons/person/1  

DELETE

curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -X DELETE http://192.168.0.165/persons/person/1  

curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -H "X-HTTP-Method-Override: DELETE" -X POST http://192.168.0.3:8090/persons/person/1 

Setting query parameters

curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" "http://192.168.0.165/persons?firstName=james&lastName=wallis"

Setting cookies

curl -b "name=value" http://example.com

curl -b mycookies.txt http://example.com

Setting HTTP Headers

curl -H "Accept: application/xml" -H "Content-Type: application/xml" http://example.com

Setting form parameters

curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -X POST -d "firstName=james" http://192.168.0.165/persons/person 

Setting body

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"username":"xyz","password":"xyz"}' http://localhost:3000/api/login

General

Otuput to Screen

curl example.com

Output to File

curl example.com > file.html

curl -o file.html example.com 

Download multiple files

curl -O libiconv-1.14.tar.gz http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.10.tar.gz \
     -O http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.12.tar.gz \
     -O http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.13.tar.gz

Follow redirect

curl -L example.com

Resume download

Start download

curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.10.tar.gz
# cancel it with Ctrl + C

Resume Download

curl -C - -O http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.10.tar.gz

View complete request and response headers

curl -v example.com

View only response headers

curl -I example.com

Use proxy

curl -x http://proxyserver:proxyport --proxy-user user:password -L http://example.com

Ignore SSL certificate

curl -k https://example.com

Set user agent

curl -A "USER AGENT" http://example.com

Limit download rate

curl --limit-rate 100k -O http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.10.tar.gz

Download from FTP

curl ftp://example.com/mydirectory/myfile.zip --user username:password -o myfile.zip

List FTP directory structure

curl ftp://example.com --user username:password

Upload file to FTP

curl -T myfile.zip ftp://example.com/mydirectory/ --user username:password

Delete file on FTP

curl ftp://example.com/ -X 'DELE myfile.zip' --user username:password

Send email

curl --url "smtps://smtp.example.com:465" --ssl-reqd   \
     --mail-from "user@example.com" --mail-rcpt "friend@example.com"   \
     --upload-file mailcontent.txt --user "user@example.com:password" \
     --insecure

Download certificate

curl --cacert my-ca.crt https://example.com

Baixar arquivo dependendo da data de alteração

curl -z 3-Jan-14 http://example.com/myfile.gz