cURL to Python converter

How to use it

1. Paste the curl command. A leading curl or $ curl is fine, and so are multi-line commands ending in \.
2. Copy the Python code and run it with the requests library installed (pip install requests).
3. Check the note under the result for anything that was not converted.

How it works

The command is split like a shell would split it, then each option is read:

• The method comes from -X, or is POST when there is a body or form, HEAD with -I, and GET otherwise. Standard methods use requests.get, requests.post and so on; others use requests.request.
• Headers (-H, -A, -b, -e, and -u as Basic auth) go into a headers dict.
• A JSON body with a JSON content type becomes json_data (true → True, null → None); other bodies become a data string; -F fields become files. With -G, data is added to the URL instead.

Worked example

curl -X POST https://api.example.com/items -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"name":"x","ok":true}'

becomes

import requests

headers = {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
}

json_data = {
    'name': 'x',
    'ok': True,
}

response = requests.post('https://api.example.com/items', headers=headers, json=json_data)
print(response.status_code)
print(response.text)

Tips

• Copied browser commands contain cookies and tokens. Remove them or move them to environment variables before sharing code.
• Use response.json() instead of response.text when the API returns JSON.
• For JavaScript, convert the same command with cURL to fetch.