# How to run curl command
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-run-curl-command/95930
**Category:** General
**Created:** [11 March 2025 20:29 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-run-curl-command/95930 "2025-03-11T20:29:03Z")
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### Author:  [@MKaiser96](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/MKaiser96)
#### Post date: [11 March 2025 20:29 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-run-curl-command/95930/1 "2025-03-11T20:29:03Z")
Hello,
I'm newly log my datapoints with InfluxDB. I want to create a template to delete datapoints via the InfluxDB API. There is a curl command to delete datapoints, but I don't know how to run this command in Node-RED.
Here is an example of the InfluxDB documentation.
```auto
curl --request POST http://localhost:8086/api/v2/delete?org=example-org&bucket=example-bucket \
--header 'Authorization: Token YOUR_API_TOKEN' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
"start": "2020-03-01T00:00:00Z",
"stop": "2020-11-14T00:00:00Z",
"predicate": "_measurement=\"example-measurement\" AND exampleTag=\"exampleTagValue\""
}'
```
Can someone please help me to get this command to work in Node-RED?
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### Author:  [@E1cid](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/E1cid)
#### Post date: [11 March 2025 20:35 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-run-curl-command/95930/2 "2025-03-11T20:35:44Z")
You can run the curl request in the http request node as a post request. Setting the headers in the request node, or passed to the request node in msg.headers. The data would be passed to the request node using msg.payload.
Have a go and if you run into trouble you can post here an export of the flow that is not working. [How to import/export a flow](https://nodered.org/docs/user-guide/editor/workspace/import-export)
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### Author:  [@MKaiser96](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/MKaiser96)
#### Post date: [11 March 2025 20:43 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-run-curl-command/95930/3 "2025-03-11T20:43:47Z")
I got it! Thank you!
Here is my function node for http request node:
```auto
msg.method = "POST"
msg.url = 'http://localhost:8086/api/v2/delete?org=example-org&bucket=example-bucket'
msg.headers = {
"Authorization": "Token YOUR_API_TOKEN",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
msg.payload = {
"start": "2020-03-01T00:00:00Z",
"stop": "2020-11-14T00:00:00Z",
"predicate": "_measurement=\"example-measurement\" AND exampleTag=\"exampleTagValue\""
}
return msg;
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [25 March 2025 20:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-run-curl-command/95930/4 "2025-03-25T20:44:14Z")
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