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Today I Learnt: Fetch a URL with curl

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Basic GET:

curl -sS https://example.com

Download to a file:

curl -sS -o page.html https://example.com

Tip: -I fetches headers, -L follows redirects.

title: "Today I Learnt: Fetch a URL with curl" date: "2025-09-16" tags: ["bash", "til"] draft: false summary: "Download or view an HTTP response."

Fetch a URL and show response headers:

curl -I https://example.com

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