cURL to Code Converter

How to Use the cURL to Code Converter

1. Paste your cURL command into the input area. You can copy it directly from browser DevTools, API documentation, or a terminal.
2. Select the target language from the dropdown: JavaScript fetch or Python requests.
3. Click Convert to generate the equivalent code.
4. Copy the output using the Copy button and paste it into your project.

What This Tool Does

The converter tokenizes the cURL command, respecting single-quoted and double-quoted argument boundaries the same way a shell would. It then maps each recognized flag to its equivalent in the target language: method flags become the method option, header flags become a headers object, data flags become the request body, and user flags become a Basic Authorization header or an auth= tuple. The emitted code is plain readable source with no external dependencies beyond the standard library of each language.

Where the Commands Come From

• Browser DevTools. Right-click any request in the Network panel and choose "Copy as cURL" - the fastest way to replay a real request from your own code.
• API documentation. Most REST API docs give examples as curl commands; convert them to start integrating without reading the flag soup.
• Postman and HTTPie exports. Both can emit curl, which this tool then turns into project code.

Pitfalls When Converting

DevTools' "Copy as cURL" includes every header the browser sent - cookies, sec-ch-* client hints, accept-encoding - most of which you do not want hardcoded. Strip session cookies before committing generated code, both for cleanliness and because they are live credentials. Watch the data flags too: -d strips newlines and --data-binary preserves the payload byte-for-byte, while -d @file.json reads from a file - the converter cannot inline a file it cannot see, so paste the body literally instead. Finally, a bare -d implies POST in curl even without -X POST; the generated code mirrors that, but it surprises people reading the original command.