Guru: Using Curl To Interact With Web Services

January 22, 2018 Jacob Holt

There have been times where I have had to collect or enter data into vendor websites. While usually this was not a hassle, it was an uncommon function of my job. However, it wasn’t long before the standard business process got unbearable. I began looking for ways to automate those tasks by using the command-line program Curl to get and post data to vendor web services.

Curl is an open-source program that supports a plethora of internet protocols for transferring data. With its wide-ranging parameters, this program offers much power for automating tedious tasks. But just like other highly flexible …