Using cURL with a username and password?

I want to access a URL which requires a username/password. I’d like to try accessing it with curl. Right now I’m doing something like:

curl http://api.somesite.com/test/blah?something=123

I get an error. I guess I need to specify a username and password along with the above command.

How can I do that?

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