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Tooling: curl

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curl or wget?

Curl or wget are similar tools, both can be do almost te same. But to keep it simple:

  • curl is optimized for calling APIs or crawl a website.
  • wget is better for downloading web content.

Command Line Options (overview)

Short Long Description
-# –progress-bar Show a progress bar
-u –user Username and plaintext password in user:password notation
-b –cookie Use cookie with request
-c –cookie-jar Save cookie to file
-H –header Headers to add to the request
-i –include Include HTTP headers in the output
-I –head Fetch headers only
-k –insecure Allow insecure connections
-X –request Request method to use for the HTTP server communication
-o –output Write output to file
-O remote-name Write output to file named like the remote fil
-s –silent Silent Silent or quiet mode. Less or no output
-v –verbose Detailed information (useful for debugging, error handling)

Request Types

  • -X GET (default)
  • -X POST
  • -X PUT
  • -X DELETE

Headers

  • -H “Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded”
  • -H “Content-Type: application/json”

Examples

Download the landing page of kargware.com and save it as index.html

curl -o index.html https://www.kargware.com
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