how to get curl to output only http response body json and no other headers etc

Question

I am using curl in a bash script to fetch the response of a service as below   response   curl -isb -H  Accept  application json   http   host 8080 some resource     Service response is of json type and on browser I could perfectly fine response  However curl response has other unwanted things  such as set-cookie  content-length header in this case  and sometimes the actual response is eaten up     Here is the output of echo  response     Set-Cookie  rack session BAh7CEkiD3Nlc3Npb25faWQGOgZFVEkiRWJlY2JiOTE2M2Q1ZWI4NThjMDdi 0AYjRiOWRjMGMxMGEwYTBkMjE3NmJhZDVjYzY4YjY4ZTlmMTE2ZGVkYWE3MTMG 0AOwBGS SIJY3NyZgY7AEZJIiVhZmQ2MmUyZGMxMzFmOGEwMjg3NDlhNWM3YmVm 0AN2FjNwY7AEZJIg10cmFja2luZwY7AEZ7B0kiFEhUVFBfVVNFUl9BR0VOVAY7 0AAFRJIi00MTc0OGM2MWNkMzljZTYxNzY3ZjU0 Y2I5OTdiYWRkN2MyNTBkYmU4 0ABjsARkkiGUhUVFBfQUNDRVBUX0xBTkdVQUdFBjsAVEkiLWRhMzlhM2VlNWU2 0AYjRiMGQzMjU1YmZlZjk1NjAxODkwYWZkODA3MDkGOwBG 0A--ee97a62095e7d42129  tontent-Length  354c8  path    HttpOnly   This is breaking my response parsing logic  I have seen this happening intermittently which is weird   Is there a way to get  only  json response from curl output  I went through the curl documentation but could not see any thing  or I could have missed it  Appreciate any help  Thx

User · Accepted Answer

You are specifying the -i option      -i  --include        HTTP  Include the HTTP-header in the output  The HTTP-header includes things like server-name  date of the document  HTTP-version and more       Simply remove that option from your command line   response   curl -sb -H  Accept  application json   http   host 8080 some resource

User · Answer

bin bash  req   curl -s -X GET http   host 8080 some resource -H  Accept  application json   2 gt  amp 1 echo    req

User · Answer

I was executing a get request an also want to see just the response and nothing else  seems like magic is done with -silent -s option  From the curl man page   -s  --silent Silent or quiet mode  Don t show progress meter or error messages   Makes Curl mute  It will still output the data you ask for  potentially even to the terminal stdout unless you redirect it   Below the examples  curl -s  quot http   host 8080 some resource quot  curl -silent  quot http   host 8080 some resource quot   Using custom headers curl -s -H  quot Accept  application json quot   quot http   host 8080 some resource quot    Using POST method with a header curl -s -X POST -H  quot Content-Type  application json quot   quot http   host 8080 some resource quot   -d     quot myBean quot     quot property quot    quot value quot      You can also customize the output for specific values with -w  below the options I use to get just response codes of the curl  curl -s -o  dev null -w  quot   http code  quot   quot http   host 8080 some resource quot

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