2024-04-03 Curl by example: Interactive guide by Anton Zhiyanov

• https://antonz.org/curl-by-example/

• https://daniel.haxx.se/

Curl (client for URLs) is a tool for client-side internet transfers (uploads and downloads) using a specific protocol (such as HTTP, FTP or IMAP), where the endpoint is identified by a URL.

Curl runs on 92 operating systems and has over 20 billion installations worldwide.

Curl has extensive reference documentation and even a 500-page book devoted entirely to it. I wanted something lighter, so I made this interactive step-by-step guide to essential curl operations.

You can read it from start to finish to (hopefully) learn more about curl, or jump to a specific use case that interests you.

This guide is partially based on the 3.5-hour workshop Mastering the curl command line by Daniel Stenberg , the author of curl.