can't use curl to query neo4j

Issue

I am trying to use curl to query neo4j

curl -X POST -H Accept:application/json -H Content-Type:application/json -u neo4j:password -v http://localhost:7474/db/neo4j/tx/commit -d '{"statements":[{"statement":"MATCH (n) RETURN n"}]}'

gives me this response

    Note: Unnecessary use of -X or --request, POST is already inferred.
*   Trying 127.0.0.1:7474...
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 7474 (#0)
* Server auth using Basic with user 'neo4j'
> POST /db/neo4j/tx/commit HTTP/1.1
> Host: localhost:7474
> Authorization: Basic bmVvNGo6cGFzc3dvcmQ=
> User-Agent: curl/7.79.1
> Accept:application/json
> Content-Type:application/json
> Content-Length: 47
>
* Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 09:13:35 GMT
< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
< Content-Type: application/json
< Content-Length: 120
<
{"results":[],"errors":[{"code":"Neo.ClientError.Request.InvalidFormat","message":"Could not parse the incoming JSON"}]}* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact

If anyone could help please

Solution

Should have mentioned I’m on windows. Apparently you have to escape those double quotes in the json

This works for me now:

curl -X POST -H Accept:application/json -H Content-Type:application/json -u neo4j:password -v http://localhost:7474/db/neo4j/tx/commit -d "{\"statements\":[{\"statement\":\"MATCH (n) RETURN n\"}]}"

Answered By – vegemite toast

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