cURL

With cURL, you can make HTTP requests to APIs, backends, or simply URLs from the command line.

The basic commands are:

• curl https://v2.jokeapi.dev/joke/programming - make a simple GET request
• curl google.com -L - short for --location returns the response after any redirects
• curl https://reqres.in/api/users -d "page=2" - short for --data adds data parameters
• curl https://reqres.in/api/users -X POST - short for --request defines the HTTP method to use; in this case it’s POST
• curl https://reqres.in/api/users -H 'Key: Value' - short for --header sets an additional key-value pair in the header