Rate-limit download speed curl
Limit download bandwidth to 1 MB/s
curl --limit-rate 1M -O https://example.com/bigfile.iso
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POST JSON payload
curl -s -X POST https://api.example.com/v1/resource -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' -d '{"key":"value"}' | jq .
Follow redirects with verbose
curl -sLv https://example.com 2>&1 | grep -E '^[<>*]'
Time a request
curl -so /dev/null -w 'DNS: %{time_namelookup}s\nConnect: %{time_connect}s\nTTFB: %{time_starttransfer}s\nTotal: %{time_total}s\n' https://example.com
Download with progress
curl -L --progress-bar -o output.file https://example.com/file.tar.gz
Basic auth request
curl -s -u user:password https://api.example.com/endpoint | jq .