cURL Command Reference Cheat Sheet

curl https://api.example.com/users            # GET requestcurl -X POST https://api.example.com/users     # POST requestcurl -X PUT https://api.example.com/users/1    # PUT requestcurl -X DELETE https://api.example.com/users/1 # DELETE requestcurl -I https://api.example.com                # HEAD request (headers only)

curl -X POST https://api.example.com/users \  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \  -H "Authorization: Bearer TOKEN" \  -d '{"name": "Alice", "age": 30}'curl -G https://api.example.com/search \  --data-urlencode "q=hello world"    # URL-encode query params

curl -O https://example.com/file.zip     # save with remote filenamecurl -o out.zip https://example.com/file.zip  # save with custom namecurl -F "file=@photo.jpg" https://api.example.com/upload  # multipart uploadcurl -L https://example.com/redirect     # follow redirectscurl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" https://example.com  # status code only