How to do a PUT request with cURL?
Solution 1
Using the -X
flag with whatever HTTP verb you want:
curl -X PUT -d arg=val -d arg2=val2 localhost:8080
This example also uses the -d
flag to provide arguments with your PUT request.
Solution 2
Quick Answer:
In a single line, the curl command would be:
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If sending form data:
curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data;" -F "key1=val1" "YOUR_URI"
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If sending raw data as json:
curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"key1":"value"}' "YOUR_URI"
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If sending a file with a POST request:
curl -X POST "YOUR_URI" -F 'file=@/file-path.csv'
Alternative solution:
You can use the POSTMAN app from Chrome Store to get the equivalent cURL request. This is especially useful when writing more complicated requests.
For the request with other formats or for different clients like java, PHP, you can check out POSTMAN/comment below.
Solution 3
An example PUT following Martin C. Martin's comment:
curl -T filename.txt http://www.example.com/dir/
With -T
(same as --upload-file
) curl will use PUT for HTTP.
Solution 4
curl -X PUT -d 'new_value' URL_PATH/key
where,
X - option to be used for request command
d - option to be used in order to put data on remote url
URL_PATH - remote url
new_value - value which we want to put to the server's key
Solution 5
I am late to this thread, but I too had a similar requirement. Since my script was constructing the request for curl dynamically, I wanted a similar structure of the command across GET, POST and PUT.
Here is what works for me
For PUT request:
curl --request PUT --url http://localhost:8080/put --header 'content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' --data 'bar=baz&foo=foo1'
For POST request:
curl --request POST --url http://localhost:8080/post --header 'content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' --data 'bar=baz&foo=foo1'
For GET request:
curl --request GET --url 'http://localhost:8080/get?foo=bar&foz=baz'
John
Updated on July 14, 2022Comments
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John almost 2 years
How do I test a RESTful PUT (or DELETE) method using cURL?
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Martin C. Martin over 10 years"man curl" on -X: "Normally you don't need this option. All sorts of GET, HEAD, POST and PUT requests are rather invoked by using dedicated command line options." But I couldn't find another way.
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Martin C. Martin over 9 yearsA year later, I found a way! curl -T
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Martin over 8 yearsAs Martin C. Martin's answer also changes to GET after a redirect from the server this is the more useful answer in my opinion.
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Martin M over 8 yearsUnfortunately, the
-T
is no substitute for-X PUT
if you want to specify parameters with-d
or-F
.-T
sends the content of a file via PUT. To achieve theGET
after a redirect, add the parameter--location
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Martin M over 8 yearsTo achieve the
GET
after a redirect, add the parameter--location
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Mikael Lepistö about 8 yearsNo idea why this has been downvoted... I copied here the idea how to pass JSON body for curl PUT. Also postman is pretty awesome tool to get curl code for more complicated queries :)
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Prateek about 8 yearsThanks !! Even I don't have any idea why about the downvotes. Might be reluctance of the users to adopt it. I have created a respo of all my REST apis for mobile in POSTMAN and that is the best productivity tip that I can suggest to anyone working with REST.
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James Powell almost 7 yearsCurl 7.47 and this would not work for me. theabraham's answer always defaults to post behavior. --get (or -G) however will force the -d (--data) fields to become url parameters and does work.
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vikramvi over 6 yearsReal world example where I'm passing json data and parameter in the end point; curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"amount":"999","type":"car","parent_id":"12345"}' localhost:8080/transactionservice/transaction/2222
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Prateek over 6 years"Content-Type" header itself makes makes a lot of difference whether your request is accepted or not. Postman is great at that. Many times the api developers themselves do not know what is the actual curl and postman comes to rescue there as well - to dubug the actual Content Type
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rbaleksandar about 6 yearsHaving to install a complete browser (if one doesn't have Chrome) and an extension for it might be an overkill for some people imho. At least you could have provided an alternative for another more common (default installation) web browser like Firefox, where the HttpRequester does a similar job.
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Prateek about 6 years@rbaleksandar Postman can be installed as a standalone app as well.
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rbaleksandar about 6 yearsI did, it requires you to sign in.
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tuxayo almost 6 yearsIt might be downvoted because the question is about curl.
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tuxayo almost 6 yearsIt might be downvoted because it's non-libre/not open source and some people don't want to recommend such tools. Well I might be a bit dreaming there. There unfortunately not that much resistance to non-libre tools. But more importantly: downvotes shouldn't be used for that.
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bosari over 5 yearswhat if filename.txt is in remote server?
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garryp about 5 yearsSo intuitive... 🙄