Basic usage
GET
GET request
curl http://example.comEnable compression
curl --compressed http://example.com/POST
Simple POST data
curl -d name=x http://example.comMultiple parameters
curl -d name=x -d surname=y http://example.comcurl -d 'name=x&surname=y' http://example.comRaw data (no special interpretation of @ character)
curl --data-raw "@at" https://example.comURL-encoded data
curl --data-urlencode name=val http://example.comBinary data
curl --data-binary @filename https://example.comJSON
curl --json '{"foo": "bar"}' https://example.com/Chunked encoding
curl -H "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" -d @file http://example.comSend output of the command in POST request
uname -a | curl -XPOST -d @- http://example.comHEAD
HEAD request
curl -I http://example.comPUT
curl -T localfile http://example.com/new/resourceSave output to the file
Write output to the file
curl -o file.html http://example.comWrite output to the file, use remote file name
curl -O http://example.com/file.htmlDo not overwrite existing files
curl --no-clobber https://example.com/image -o file.pngSkip TLS certificate validation
curl -k https://example.comSilent output
curl -s http://example.comFail fast with no output at all on server errors
curl -f http://example.comDo not handle sequences of /../ and /./ in the URL.
curl --path-as-is http://example.com/../../etc/passwdProxy
Connect via proxy
curl -x http://127.0.0.1:8080 http://example.comSocks 4a
curl --socks4a hostname:1080 https://example.comSocks5 proxy
curl --socks5 proxy.example:1080 https://example.comSet username and password for proxy authentication
curl --proxy-user username:pass -x http://127.0.0.1:8080 https://example.comSet HTTP headers
Set Cookie value
curl -b cookie=value https://example.comSet User-Agent
curl -A "New User Agent" https://example.comSet referer
curl -e "https://test.example" https://example.comSet header
curl -H "User-Agent: Hello" https://example.comcurl -H 'X-Custom-Header: HeaderValue' https://example.comSet Content-Type
curl -d '{}' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' https://example.com
Send a file
Send file as form
curl -F "file=@/path/to/file" http://example.comcurl -F "x=`cat /path/to/file`" http://example.comcat /path/to/file | curl -F ":data=@-" http://example.comUpload file
curl -T /path/to/file http://example.comSend in POST body
curl -XPOST -d @/path/to/file http://example.comSend binary data in POST body
curl --data-binary @binary.data https://example.comFTP
Send file via FTP
curl -T /path/to/file ftp://server -u user:password