Curl output format

A lot of usefull informatoin can be caught using curl. Formating the output can be done with the -w --write-out argument

curl -w 'Home loadtime: %{time_total}\nResponse code: %{http_code}\n' -o /dev/null -s 'https://www.janw.me/'
Bash output of curl request

Output example:

This example will show the load time and response code. These 2 values are duable. But If you want more it’s more readable to pass a file.

In file: nano curlformat.txt

    time_namelookup:  %{time_namelookup}\n
       time_connect:  %{time_connect}\n
    time_appconnect:  %{time_appconnect}\n
   time_pretransfer:  %{time_pretransfer}\n
      time_redirect:  %{time_redirect}\n
 time_starttransfer:  %{time_starttransfer}\n
                    ----------\n
         time_total:  %{time_total}\n

Then pass the file to curl:

curl -w "@curl-format.txt" -o /dev/null -s "https://janw.me/"
Bash output of curl format file

A list of all avialable variables are in the man pages

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