How to use the curl command in PowerShell?

Question

Am using the curl command in PowerShell to post the comment in bit-bucket pull request page through a Jenkins job. I used the below PowerShell command to execute the curl command, but am getting the error mentioned below. Could anyone please help me on this to get it worked?

$CurlArgument="-u xxx@gmail.com:yyyy -X POST https://xxx.bitbucket.org/1.0/repositories/abcd/efg/pull-requests/2229/comments --data content=success"
$CURLEXE='C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin\curl.exe'
& $CURLEXE $CurlArgument

Error Details:

curl.exe : curl: no URL specified!
At line:3 char:1
+ & $CURLEXE $CurlArgument
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (curl: no URL specified!:String) [], RemoteException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandError

curl: try 'curl --help' or 'curl --manual' for more information

Sorry, don't have any experience with curl but why don't you use the built-in PowerShell `Invoke-WebRequest` cdmlet? — Martin Brandl, Oct 18 '16 at 10:19
@MartinBrandl, Am not aware of that, i will check about it and let you know. — VADIVEL NATARAJAN user2505309, Oct 18 '16 at 10:21

Ansgar Wiechers · Answer 1 · 2018-09-19T13:58:26.373

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Use splatting.

$CurlArgument = '-u', 'xxx@gmail.com:yyyy',
                '-X', 'POST',
                'https://xxx.bitbucket.org/1.0/repositories/abcd/efg/pull-requests/2229/comments',
                '--data', 'content=success'
$CURLEXE = 'C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin\curl.exe'
& $CURLEXE @CurlArgument

edited Sep 19 '18 at 13:58

answered Oct 18 '16 at 10:21

Ansgar Wiechers

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Am getting the below error. + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: ( % Total % ... Time Current:String) [], RemoteException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandError – VADIVEL NATARAJAN user2505309 Oct 18 '16 at 10:25
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That's `curl` status output. Add the parameter `-s` to suppress it. – Ansgar Wiechers Oct 18 '16 at 10:26
$CurlArgument = '-s', '-u', 'xxx@gmail.com:yyyy', '-X', 'POST', 'https://xxx.bitbucket.org/1.0/repositories/abcd/efg/pull-requests/2229/comments', '--data', 'content=success' – VADIVEL NATARAJAN user2505309 Oct 18 '16 at 10:37
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much easier than trying to use `Invoke-RestMethod` in PowerShell when it comes to using `content-type: multipart/form-data` :) Thanks – GabLeRoux Jul 03 '17 at 21:35

score 13 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 18 '16 at 14:10

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In Powershell 3.0 and above there is both a Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod. Curl is actually an alias of Invoke-WebRequest in PoSH. I think using native Powershell would be much more appropriate than curl, but it's up to you :).

Invoke-WebRequest MSDN docs are here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849901.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

Invoke-RestMethod MSDN docs are here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849971.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

answered Oct 18 '16 at 14:10

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Unfortunately Invoke_WebRequest is not even close to curl on the list of what you can do with curl. Simple `--verbose` flag is not available to see the details information about TLS connection, RAW http request and response. Am I missing something? – outcoldman Dec 11 '18 at 22:26
very useful, thank you! sometimes we get used-to of doing things in a particular way and forget to look for alternatives. – Praveen Tiwari Apr 19 '19 at 09:48

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 28 '21 at 09:36

Or another option you could just call curl.exe using splatting as follows.

> curl.exe '-u', 'xxx@gmail.com:yyyy',
 '-X', 'POST',
 'https://xxx.bitbucket.org/1.0/repositories/abcd/efg/pull-requests/2229/comments',                
 '--data', 'content=success'

To know where is curl.exe using this command Get-Command curl.exe

Other option is to delete aliases curl command with Invoke-WebRequest

To see and delete aliaes in PowerShell

>Get-Aliases
>Remove-Item alias:curl

Then just runing command without '.exe'

> curl '-u', 'xxx@gmail.com:yyyy',
 '-X', 'POST',
 'https://xxx.bitbucket.org/1.0/repositories/abcd/efg/pull-requests/2229/comments',                
 '--data', 'content=success'

I hope this would helps.

score 2 · Answer 4 · edited Mar 14 '22 at 07:17

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Instead of curl you can use this command:

(New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString("http://google.com")

edited Mar 14 '22 at 07:17

blackgreen

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answered Mar 14 '22 at 06:13

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