Basic Usage
Get only the response status code from a request
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" http://example.com #=> 200
# Description
-s # Silent mode. Don't show download progress.
-o /dev/null # Suppress the response body
-w "%{http_code}\n" # Write-out the numerical response code (+ newline)
Pretty-print JSON response body using jq (must have jq installed already)
curl -s https://highlights-api-production.up.railway.app/random | jq .
Download to File
Write output to a local file instead of stdout
curl http://example.com/some-file.txt -o ./myfile.txt
Write output to a local file named like the remote file
curl -O http://example.com/some-file.txt