curl¶

Some frequently used curl commands/snippets.

Response status code and body¶

bashfish

$ HTTP_CODE=$(curl -sS -o response.json -w "%{http_code}" https://ifconfig.co/json)

$ echo $HTTP_CODE
200

$ cat response.json
{
  ...
}

$ set HTTP_CODE (curl -sS -o response.json -w "%{http_code}" https://ifconfig.co/json)

$ echo $HTTP_CODE
200

$ cat response.json
{
  ...
}

-s (--silent): Hides the progress meter and noise
-S (--show-error): Tells curl that even though it's in silent mode, it should still print an error message if the connection completely fails (e.g., DNS failure, connection refused).

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