Curl Cheat Sheet: How is anyone supposed to remember curl commands? I hate command-line utilities.

curl cheat sheet.md

curl cheat sheet

$ curl [arguments] 'https://my.url.com/path/file.ext?a=b&c=d'

Request

Nickname	Argument	Description
Insecure	-k	Accept invalid TLS server certificates
Verb/Method	-X POST	Set the request verb
Header	-H "Content-Type: application/json"	Add a request header
Auth	-u username:password	Send authentication
Body	-d "<hello />"	Set the request body to a string
Body	-T requestBody.xml	Set the request body to a local file's contents

Response

Nickname	Argument	Description
Verbose	-v	Show verbose output, including TLS, keepalive, and all headers
Quiet	-s	Hide all output except the response body
Headers	-i	Show response headers
Redirections	-L	Follow redirection responses
Output	-o response.txt -O	Save the response to a local file instead of printing to standard output

URL

Remember to either escape all instances of & in the URL into \&, or surround the URL with 'single quotation marks', because otherwise Bash will assume you want to background the command before the ampersand and then run the right side as a separate command, instead of treating the entire URL as one string.