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Yaniv Ben-Malka
Yaniv Ben-Malka

Reputation: 47

Pass variables to cURL in batch file

I use a cURL command stored in .bat file.

I want to have variables implemented in the command, that will receive the value when I call the command to execute the .bat file.

Can anybody help with understading the syntax of:

Here is my cURL command (Parts in bold should be variables):

curl -k --user "usercode:" -d source="https://secure.4log.com/**431032**" https://api.pdfshift.io/v2/convert/ -d sandbox=true --output C:\Users\administrator\Desktop\**testpdf11**.pdf

Upvotes: 0

Views: 10289

Answers (2)

Stephan
Stephan

Reputation: 56228

Parameters to the batchfile are referenced by %1 for the first one, %2 for the second one and so on until %9 This makes your command:

curl -k --user "usercode:" -d source="https://secure.4log.com/%~1" https://api.pdfshift.io/v2/convert/ -d sandbox=true --output C:\Users\administrator\Desktop\%~2.pdf

Note: use %~1 to remove surrounding quotes (no effect, if there aren't such)

You might want to check if there are at least two parameters before with:

if "%~2"=="" (echo you need two parameters & goto :eof )

(Maybe even add some plausibility tests)

Upvotes: 1

user7818749
user7818749

Reputation:

If you want to send parameters you simply use:

curl %1 %2 %3

Each numeric value defines the position of the word after your batch.

so as a simple example, if you run only need to run something like:

mybatch.bat 1234 5678

That 1234 will be seen as %1 and 5678 will be %2 and you will get:

source="https://secure.4log.com/%1" C:\Users\administrator\Desktop\%2.pdf

resulting to:

source="https://secure.4log.com/1234" C:\Users\administrator\Desktop\5678.pdf

If you plan on using paramters with space, or any quoted text for that matter, you should rather use %~1 and %~2 as it will remove the quotes for you.

Upvotes: 1

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