Download with progress

Download a file showing a clean progress bar

curl -L --progress-bar -o output.file https://example.com/file.tar.gz
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More curl commands

  • Basic auth request
    curl -s -u user:password https://api.example.com/endpoint | jq .

    HTTP request with Basic Authentication

  • Check only HTTP status code
    curl -so /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' https://example.com

    Get just the response status code — useful in scripts

  • POST JSON body
    curl -X POST https://api.example.com/v1/items -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"name":"foo"}'

    Send JSON payload via POST

  • Bearer token auth
    curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN' https://api.example.com/me

    Attach JWT/Bearer token in Authorization header

  • Follow redirects with verbose
    curl -Lv --max-redirs 5 https://example.com

    Follow up to 5 redirects and show full request/response

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