{"repo":"oxylabs/curl-post-requests","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/oxylabs/curl-post-requests","clone":"git clone https://github.com/oxylabs/curl-post-requests.git","description":"Learn how to send POST requests with cURL.","language":null,"stars":135,"topics":["curl","curl-library","post","post-requests","scraping","web-scraping"],"license":null,"category":"scrapers-browser-automation","readme_excerpt":"How to Send Post Requests With cURL - How to Send Post Requests With cURL Sending POST requests Specifying the Content-Type Posting JSON Posting XML Sending a file or multiple files via POST Sending authentication credentials cURL is a powerful command-line tool for transferring data over various network protocols, including HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Since POST is a request method of HTTP & HTTPS protocols, cURL makes sending POST requests a one-line command that you can run in your terminal easily. Find the full article on our website. Sending POST requests First, install cURL if you haven’t installed it already. You can find the installation instructions in our How to Use cURL With Proxy blog post. The basic syntax for sending a POST request using cURL is as below: Notice the flag followed by , it tells cURL to make a request using the HTTP protocol’s POST method, and the flag sets request data as and sends it to the website https://example.com/api. The flag is the short form of the command line option . Specifying the Content-Type Like any HTTP request, POST requests created using cURL can also have custom headers. For specifying the header, you’ll have to set it using the header flag. In the above command, there’s an additional flag which lets users send custom HTTP request headers via cURL. In this case, by specifying the header as you’re letting the web server know that the request body data is in TEXT format. Posting JSON It’s also possible to send JSON data in the r","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/oxylabs","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/oxylabs/curl-post-requests/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}