diff --git a/docs/examples/Makefile.inc b/docs/examples/Makefile.inc
index 1f1996c370..baaedf9755 100644
--- a/docs/examples/Makefile.inc
+++ b/docs/examples/Makefile.inc
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 # These are all libcurl example programs to be test compiled
 check_PROGRAMS = \
   10-at-a-time \
+  address-scope \
   altsvc \
   anyauthput \
   certinfo \
@@ -88,6 +89,7 @@ check_PROGRAMS = \
   multi-legacy \
   multi-post \
   multi-single \
+  netrc \
   parseurl \
   persistent \
   pop3-authzid \
diff --git a/docs/examples/netrc.c b/docs/examples/netrc.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..42e1b6341e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/examples/netrc.c
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+/***************************************************************************
+ *                                  _   _ ____  _
+ *  Project                     ___| | | |  _ \| |
+ *                             / __| | | | |_) | |
+ *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
+ *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ *
+ * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
+ * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
+ * are also available at https://curl.se/docs/copyright.html.
+ *
+ * You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell
+ * copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is
+ * furnished to do so, under the terms of the COPYING file.
+ *
+ * This software is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
+ *
+ ***************************************************************************/
+/* <DESC>
+ * Use credentials from .netrc
+ * </DESC>
+ */
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <curl/curl.h>
+
+int main(void)
+{
+  CURL *curl;
+  CURLcode res = CURLE_OK;
+
+  curl = curl_easy_init();
+  if(curl) {
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NETRC, CURL_NETRC_OPTIONAL);
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NETRC_FILE,
+                     "/home/daniel/s3cr3ts.txt");
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://curl.se/");
+
+    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
+
+    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
+  }
+
+  return (int)res;
+}