Curl - Your friend for Rest APIs/Calls - Basic Commands

And, you will get the result of this rest endpoint on the console or terminal.

Note: In above example, I assume there is no authentication asked by REST endpoint.

<h2>A POST Call</h2>
Lets assume you have a REST endpoint which takes some data in a POST call.

Here, I'm passing a json data to rest endpoint, and mentioned that its a POST call by -X switch.

Note: You need to mention header "Content-Type: application/json" to pass a json to your endpoint. Else, your end point will take it as a string not json.

<h2>Pass Http Headers</h2>
You can pass as many headers to your rest endpoint as you want. Curl provides -H switch, and you pass multiple headers.

<h2>Download static resource like Image</h2>
Assume you have a public url for image like, and you want to download to your machine or server.

You specify -o flag to write to a file and give a name. Else, this will display content of that resource on console.

<h2>Download html</h2>
Similarly, you can download html of resource.

This will download the htmlonly, not any other resources like image or css or javascript.

## Using curl for upload file on AWS S3
See [Uploading to S3 witj Curl](/tutorials/how-upload-aws-s3-curl/)

If you have any difficulty using curl, put it in comment below.

Enjoy