curl It’s one of those great utilities that has been around forever and has endless use cases. These days I find myself wearing curl to download files in batches and testing APIs. Sometimes my testing leads me to use different HTTP headers in my requests.
To add a header to a curl request, use the -H flag:
curl -X 'GET' \ 'https://nft.api.cx.metamask.io/collections?chainId=1' \ -H 'accept: application/json' \ -H 'Version: 1'
You can add multiple headers with multiple -H uses. The header format is usually (key): (value).
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