For more information about curl, checkout the “What is curl” article. This article will discuss how to interact with an API using POST requests through curl. Make a simple POST request The basic syntax for sending a POST request using curl is: 1curl -X POST https://example.comThe -X argument accepts an HTTP method for interacting with the server. For HTTP, valid values include: GET (default), POST, PUT, DELETE, etc. NOTE: The -X flag is a shorthand for --request.