Walkthrough: Intro to Curl¶

Sample API¶

curl -X GET 34.237.137.145

curl -X POST 34.237.137.145

curl -X POST 34.237.137.145 -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{"body": "hello"}'

curl -X POST 34.237.137.145 -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{"firstName": "Paul", "lastName": "Matthews"}'

curl -X GET 35.153.156.170

curl -X GET 35.153.156.170/todos

curl -X POST 35.153.156.170/todos -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{"text": "buy milk"}'

Try to add a task for walking the dog?

curl -X POST 35.153.156.170/todos -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{"task": "walk dog"}'

What did we do wrong?

curl -X POST 35.153.156.170/todos -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{"text": "walk dog"}'

Say we completed one of our tasks. We can update it’s completed field by sending a PATCH request:

curl -X PATCH 35.153.156.170/todos/2

Say we want to remove the task we completed. We can remove it from the list by sending a DELETE request:

curl -X DELETE 35.153.156.170/todos/2

curl allows us to make HTTP requests from our terminal
curl allows us to set the HTTP method to: GET, POST, PATCH, DELETE and more
when using curl the HTTP responses is printed to STDOUT
there are various options that can be used with curl to further configure the request or to dig deeper into the response
man curl and curl --help are two ways to learn more about curl from the terminal