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I have a web api http://something.com/api and I want to use GET to get the response body.
This is my command:
curl "http://something.com/api" Of course, it fails and gives an error message.
When I use Chrome and input the above url, everythings correct. However I do the same things with Firefox, the url gives me the same error message. I try to repeat the action with Chrome extension DHC, the request gives correct response again. After some searching, I believe that the curl option --user-agent makes a difference. What is the correct way to set the user agent to Chrome? Or this is not the point, the problem comes from other fields? Thank you very much.
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To make a GET request using Curl, run the curl command followed by the target URL. Curl automatically selects the HTTP GET request method unless you use the -X, --request, or -d command-line option.
curl knows the HTTP methodIf you just pass in a HTTP URL like curl http://example.com , curl will use GET. If you use -d or -F curl will use POST, -I will cause a HEAD and -T will make it a PUT.
From Chrome On the line of the specific resource you're interested in, you right-click with the mouse and you select “Copy as cURL” and it'll generate a command line for you in your clipboard. Paste that in a shell to get a curl command line that makes the transfer.
If you need to set the user header string in the curl request, you can use the -H option to set user agent like:
curl -H "user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.182 Safari/537.36" http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28760694/how-to-use-curl-to-get-a-get-request-exactly-same-as-using-chrome Updated user-agent form newest Chrome at 02-22-2021
Using a proxy tool like Charles Proxy really helps make short work of something like what you are asking. Here is what I do, using this SO page as an example (as of July 2015 using Charles version 3.10):
You now have a cURL request you can run in a terminal that will mirror the request your browser made. Here is what my request to this page looked like (with the cookie header removed):
curl -H "Host: stackoverflow.com" -H "Cache-Control: max-age=0" -H "Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8" -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/44.0.2403.89 Safari/537.36" -H "HTTPS: 1" -H "DNT: 1" -H "Referer: https://www.google.com/" -H "Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8,en-GB;q=0.6,es;q=0.4" -H "If-Modified-Since: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 20:31:28 GMT" --compressed http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28760694/how-to-use-curl-to-get-a-get-request-exactly-same-as-using-chrome If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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