curl post request with body code example

Example 1: curl post json

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
 -d '{"username":"abc","password":"abc"}' \
 https://api.example.com/v2/login

Example 2: curl post request

curl -d "user=user1&pass=abcd" -X POST https://example.com/login

Example 3: curl adding body

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: text/plain" --data "this is raw data" http://78.41.xx.xx:7778/

Example 4: how to do a post with json body curl php

// API URL$url = 'http://www.example.com/api';// Create a new cURL resource$ch = curl_init($url);// Setup request to send json via POST$data = array(    'username' => 'codexworld',    'password' => '123456');$payload = json_encode(array("user" => $data));// Attach encoded JSON string to the POST fieldscurl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $payload);// Set the content type to application/jsoncurl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type:application/json'));// Return response instead of outputtingcurl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);// Execute the POST request$result = curl_exec($ch);// Close cURL resourcecurl_close($ch);

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