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cURL Basics

The simplest cURL command makes a GET request to the provided URL, for example:

curl https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users/1

The response body is written to stdout

Because the output is written to stdout you can combine it with other commands, e.g. redirecting the output to a file.

curl https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users/1 > user1.json

cURL supports a number of options and commands. Check their tutorial page or the man page for more information. We will only be covering the basics.

man curl

Assignment

Make a curl request to the following URL and look at the response:

https://api.boot.dev/v1/courses_rest_api/learn-http/issues

Make the request again, but this time redirect the output to /tmp/issues.json.

Run and submit the CLI tests.