curl post request 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: php curl post

// set post fields
$post = [
    'username' => 'user1',
    'password' => 'passuser1',
    'gender'   => 1,
];

$ch = curl_init('http://www.example.com');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);

// execute!
$response = curl_exec($ch);

// close the connection, release resources used
curl_close($ch);

// do anything you want with your response
var_dump($response);

Example 3: curl post request

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

Example 4: curl post

curl --data '' https://example.com/resource.cgi

curl -X POST https://example.com/resource.cgi

curl --request POST https://example.com/resource.cgi

Example 5: how to send http post create request using curl command

$ curl -X POST -d @filename http://locahost:8080/weather

Example 6: curl pass data in request

curl -d "param1=value1¶m2=value2" -X POST http://localhost:3000/data