How to capture Curl output to a file?

Question

I have a text document that contains a bunch of URLs in this format:

URL = \"sitehere.com\"

What I\'m looking to do is to run curl -K

Answer 1

There are several options to make curl output to a file

 # saves it to myfile.txt
curl http://www.example.com/data.txt -o myfile.txt

# The #1 will get substituted with the url, so the filename contains the url
curl http://www.example.com/data.txt -o "file_#1.txt" 

# saves to data.txt, the filename extracted from the URL
curl http://www.example.com/data.txt -O 

# saves to filename determined by the Content-Disposition header sent by the server.
curl http://www.example.com/data.txt -O -J 

Answer 2

For a single file you can use -O instead of -o filename to use the last segment of the URL path as the filename. Example:

curl http://example.com/folder/big-file.iso -O

will save the results to a new file named big-file.iso in the current folder. In this way it works similar to wget but allows you to specify other curl options that are not available when using wget.

Answer 3

If you want to store your output into your desktop, follow the below command using post command in git bash.It worked for me.

curl https://localhost:8080 --request POST --header "Content-Type: application/json" -o "C:\Desktop\test.txt"

Answer 4

curl -K myconfig.txt -o output.txt 

Writes the first output received in the file you specify (overwrites if an old one exists).

curl -K myconfig.txt >> output.txt

Appends all output you receive to the specified file.

Note: The -K is optional.

Answer 5

A tad bit late, but I think the OP was looking for something like:

curl -K myfile.txt --trace-asci output.txt

Answer 6

For those of you want to copy the cURL output in the clipboard instead of outputting to a file, you can use pbcopy by using the pipe | after the cURL command.

Example: curl https://www.google.com/robots.txt | pbcopy. This will copy all the content from the given URL to your clipboard.