cURL to Code Converter
Turn any cURL command into Python, JavaScript or Go.
POST https://api.example.com/v1/messages · 2 headers · body
import requests
url = "https://api.example.com/v1/messages"
headers = {
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"Authorization": "Bearer sk-test-123",
}
payload = {
"model": "gpt-4o-mini",
"stream": False
}
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=payload)
print(response.status_code)
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About this tool
Copy as cURL is the fastest way to capture a request from your browser devtools, but it is not code you can ship. This converter tokenizes the command exactly like a shell would — respecting quotes, escapes and line continuations — then rebuilds it as idiomatic Python requests, JavaScript fetch or Go net/http. Everything runs locally, so tokens in your Authorization header never leave the page.
How to convert cURL to Python
In Chrome or Firefox devtools, right-click a request in the Network tab and choose Copy → Copy as cURL. Paste it here and pick Python: you get a requests call with a headers dict and, when the content type is JSON, a parsed payload passed via json= so the body is re-encoded correctly.
Which cURL flags are supported
-X/--request, -H/--header, -d/--data (plus --data-raw and --data-binary), -u/--user for basic auth and --url are all parsed. Transport-only flags such as -L, -k, -s and --compressed are ignored because they have no direct equivalent in the generated client code.
Method and body inference
If no explicit method is given, the converter follows cURL's own rule: a request with a body becomes POST, everything else stays GET. JSON bodies are detected from the Content-Type header and converted to native structures — Python dicts with True/False/None, and a JSON string body for fetch and Go.
How to use cURL to Code Converter
- 1
Open cURL to Code Converter
Everything runs on this page — there is nothing to install and no account required to use the free features.
- 2
Add your input
Paste or enter your values in the panel above. The tool updates as you type, so you can iterate quickly.
- 3
Review the output
Check the result, copy it with one click, and adjust the options until it matches what your system expects.
- 4
Take it further
Use the developer & api tips below to make the result production-ready, then unlock the gated extras via the form above.
Best practices
- Work from a real payload, not a hand-typed sample — encoding bugs hide in whitespace and Unicode.
- Keep the transformation reproducible: script it in CI once you have confirmed the output here.
- Never paste live credentials, customer records or production tokens into any web tool you have not audited.
- Version the inputs and outputs you rely on so a teammate can reproduce the same result later.
Why cURL to Code Converter matters
Small integration details — an encoding, a claim, a header — are where most API bugs actually live, and they are expensive to find in production logs.
Getting them right in seconds keeps debugging sessions short and prevents malformed data from reaching downstream systems.
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