curl/httpie

curl

• Follow redirects
  curl -L ...

• Upload form file:

  curl -F ‘data=@path/to/local/file’ UPLOAD_ADDRESS
  

• Add user agent

  curl -A "user-agent-name-here" [URL]
  e.g. "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/81.0"
  

• Download file: curl -L -o do-bots.txt https://www.digitalocean.com/robots.txt

• Access Token DevOps with git

  MY_PAT=yourPAT # replace "yourPAT" with "PatStringFromWebUI"
  B64_PAT=$(printf ":%s" "$MY_PAT" | base64)
  git -c http.extraHeader="Authorization: Basic ${B64_PAT}" clone https://dev.azure.com/yourOrgName/yourProjectName/_git/yourRepoName
  

• Access Token DevOps with curl (e.g. for feed)

  MY_PAT=yourPAT # replace "yourPAT" with "PatStringFromWebUI"
  B64_PAT=$(printf ":%s" "$MY_PAT" | base64)
  curl -L -H "Authorization: Basic ${B64_PAT}" "https://feeds.dev.azure.com/${org}/${project}}/_apis/Packaging/Feeds/$feed/Packages" | jq ".value[0].versions[0].version
  

• Extra header

  curl https://whatever
   -H "X-Custom-Header: value"
   -H "Content-Type: application/json"
   -H "Authorization: bearer ********"
  

• Extra header

  curl https://whatever
   -H "X-Custom-Header: value"
   -H "Content-Type: application/json"
   -H "Authorization: basic ********"
  

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