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Great article, helped me understand what on earth curl is.
I'm starting developing apps against the Atlassian API, have done some PHP, Python, Scripting, VBS, C# etc in the past, nothing too fancy but never done API dev work before. tbf Im still trying to work out how I access their API and what language I should be using in the browser to work with their API but small steps ... :)
There are a number of free APIs with good data to play around with too, some have auth some don't. I feel like I mentioned it somewhere, but I'm not seeing it in this post. Here is a good list in case you want to play around with something that isn't the Atlassian API- github.com/public-apis/public-apis
Happy coding!
cURL is very powerful and as you said, available on quite any computer.
That being said, I found it a bit messy and inconsistent. Syntax varies between GET and POST, and the output is not (by default) the plain HTTP answer.
That's why I prefer using httpie which is an awesome user-friendly alternative to curl.
Please have a look at it and tell me what you think!
Thanks for your post!
Definitely looks slick! I can see why you would prefer it over curl. Do you know of any API docs that use HTTPie in their examples?
No, sorry. But the httpie's doc is great !
It’s just a wrapper around curl.
All roads lead to curl!
I'm a beginner. I found this post via a SE but I have been using cURL and libcurl to check the raw headers ( of my competitors usually) , the fetch some content ( to output in a file) but not to update a content via REST API or to incorporate an API to an endpoint.
Always from Android OS.
Thank You for this article.
I found a GitHub project that converts curl commands into PHP curl code. Check this out
incarnate.github.io/curl-to-php/
Thank me later🌠
I typically use Postman to test new APIs but I appreciate this explanation on what curl is since I hear about it a lot and have not used it before. 👍
I am using Linux, Ubuntu precisely but have never used curl, please include it to the article for newbies like us.
Thank you.
i prefer curl over postman: github.com/sahilrajput03#stop-usin...