Curl to return http status code along with the response

Question

I use curl to get http headers to find http status code and also return response. I get the http headers with the command

curl -I http://localhost
         


        

Answer 1

This is a way to retrieve the body "AND" the status code and format it to a proper json or whatever format works for you. Some may argue it's the incorrect use of write format option but this works for me when I need both body and status code in my scripts to check status code and relay back the responses from server.

curl -X GET -w "%{stderr}{\"status\": \"%{http_code}\", \"body\":\"%{stdout}\"}"  -s -o - “https://github.com” 2>&1

run the code above and you should get back a json in this format:

{
"status" : ,
"body" : 
}

with the -w write format option, since stderr is printed first, you can format your output with the var http_code and place the body of the response in a value (body) and follow up the enclosing using var stdout. Then redirect your stderr output to stdout and you'll be able to combine both http_code and response body into a neat output