-sS — silent, but show errorsHides the progress meter without hiding failures. The right pair for scripts. -i — include response headers -v — verbose, show the handshakeThe first thing to reach for when a request fails mysteriously. -L — follow redirects -f — fail on HTTP errorsReturns a non-zero exit code on 4xx/5xx instead of printing the error body. --compressed — request gzip -w — print timing breakdownDNS, connect, TLS and total time. Excellent for latency triage. -o — write body to a file

Read the token from an environment variableKeeps the secret out of your shell history and out of any snippet you paste.