curl.md

Simple curl interface

local curl = require "curl"

curl provides functions to execute curl. curl must be installed separately.

curl.request(...)

Execute curl with arguments ... and returns the output of curl (stdout). Arguments can be a nested list (it will be flattened). In case of error, curl returns nil, an error message and an error code (see curl man page).

curl(...)

Like curl(...) with some default options:

• --silent: silent mode
• --show-error: show an error message if it fails
• --location: follow redirections