CURL get formatted JSON

Fri, 23 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Hey,

Sometimes I check HTTP responses with CURL so it would be great to format JSON responses.

There is cool command line JSON parser and you can pipe CURL output to it like that:

curl http://some.endpoint/with-json-response | jq '.'

I’ve wrote useful function called jcurl that is basically wrapper on that command above:

function jcurl() {
    curl "$@" | jq '.'
}

P.S. Don’t forget to source your (bash|zsh|any)rc.

Disable CURL's globbing parser

Fri, 23 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Hey. Recently I’ve tried to CURL something like this:

curl 'http://localhost?q[param]=value'

and I got [globbing] bad range in column error from CURL. This one is unexpected since I was thinking that using single quotes do not require any escaping. To find a workaround you can check man curl and seek for globbing.

So the solution is -g option:

curl -g 'http://localhost?q[param]=value'

P.S.

Sure you can manually escape square brackets but if your url is pretty long it can take some time.

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CURL get formatted JSON

Disable CURL's globbing parser