curlconverter

curlconverter transpiles curl commands into programs in other programming languages.

$ curlconverter --data-raw "hello=world" example.com
import requests

data = {
    'hello': 'world',
}

response = requests.post('http://example.com', data=data)

You can choose the output language by passing --language <language>. The options are python (the default), javascript/node, node-axios, php, go, java, r, rust, elixir, dart, matlab and a few more.

Live Demo

https://curlconverter.com

Install

Install the command line tool with

$ npm install --global curlconverter

Install the JavaScript library for use in your own projects with

$ npm install --save curlconverter

curlconverter requires Node 12+.

Usage

The JavaScript API is a bunch of functions that can take either a string of Bash code or an array

import * as curlconverter from 'curlconverter';

curlconverter.toPython("curl 'http://en.wikipedia.org/' -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch' -H 'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8' -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36' -H 'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8' -H 'Referer: http://www.wikipedia.org/' -H 'Cookie: GeoIP=US:Albuquerque:35.1241:-106.7675:v4; uls-previous-languages=%5B%22en%22%5D; mediaWiki.user.sessionId=VaHaeVW3m0ymvx9kacwshZIDkv8zgF9y; centralnotice_buckets_by_campaign=%7B%22C14_enUS_dsk_lw_FR%22%3A%7B%22val%22%3A%220%22%2C%22start%22%3A1412172000%2C%22end%22%3A1422576000%7D%2C%22C14_en5C_dec_dsk_FR%22%3A%7B%22val%22%3A3%2C%22start%22%3A1417514400%2C%22end%22%3A1425290400%7D%2C%22C14_en5C_bkup_dsk_FR%22%3A%7B%22val%22%3A1%2C%22start%22%3A1417428000%2C%22end%22%3A1425290400%7D%7D; centralnotice_bannercount_fr12=22; centralnotice_bannercount_fr12-wait=14' -H 'Connection: keep-alive' --compressed");
curlconverter.toPython(['curl', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/', '-H', 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch', '-H', 'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8', '-H', 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36', '-H', 'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8', '-H', 'Referer: http://www.wikipedia.org/', '-H', 'Cookie: GeoIP=US:Albuquerque:35.1241:-106.7675:v4; uls-previous-languages=%5B%22en%22%5D; mediaWiki.user.sessionId=VaHaeVW3m0ymvx9kacwshZIDkv8zgF9y; centralnotice_buckets_by_campaign=%7B%22C14_enUS_dsk_lw_FR%22%3A%7B%22val%22%3A%220%22%2C%22start%22%3A1412172000%2C%22end%22%3A1422576000%7D%2C%22C14_en5C_dec_dsk_FR%22%3A%7B%22val%22%3A3%2C%22start%22%3A1417514400%2C%22end%22%3A1425290400%7D%2C%22C14_en5C_bkup_dsk_FR%22%3A%7B%22val%22%3A1%2C%22start%22%3A1417428000%2C%22end%22%3A1425290400%7D%7D; centralnotice_bannercount_fr12=22; centralnotice_bannercount_fr12-wait=14', '-H', 'Connection: keep-alive', '--compressed'])

and return a string of code like:

import requests

cookies = {
    'GeoIP': 'US:Albuquerque:35.1241:-106.7675:v4',
    'uls-previous-languages': '%5B%22en%22%5D',
    'mediaWiki.user.sessionId': 'VaHaeVW3m0ymvx9kacwshZIDkv8zgF9y',
    'centralnotice_buckets_by_campaign': '%7B%22C14_enUS_dsk_lw_FR%22%3A%7B%22val%22%3A%220%22%2C%22start%22%3A1412172000%2C%22end%22%3A1422576000%7D%2C%22C14_en5C_dec_dsk_FR%22%3A%7B%22val%22%3A3%2C%22start%22%3A1417514400%2C%22end%22%3A1425290400%7D%2C%22C14_en5C_bkup_dsk_FR%22%3A%7B%22val%22%3A1%2C%22start%22%3A1417428000%2C%22end%22%3A1425290400%7D%7D',
    'centralnotice_bannercount_fr12': '22',
    'centralnotice_bannercount_fr12-wait': '14',
}

headers = {
    # 'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate, sdch',
    'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.8',
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36',
    'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8',
    'Referer': 'http://www.wikipedia.org/',
    # Requests sorts cookies= alphabetically
    # 'Cookie': 'GeoIP=US:Albuquerque:35.1241:-106.7675:v4; uls-previous-languages=%5B%22en%22%5D; mediaWiki.user.sessionId=VaHaeVW3m0ymvx9kacwshZIDkv8zgF9y; centralnotice_buckets_by_campaign=%7B%22C14_enUS_dsk_lw_FR%22%3A%7B%22val%22%3A%220%22%2C%22start%22%3A1412172000%2C%22end%22%3A1422576000%7D%2C%22C14_en5C_dec_dsk_FR%22%3A%7B%22val%22%3A3%2C%22start%22%3A1417514400%2C%22end%22%3A1425290400%7D%2C%22C14_en5C_bkup_dsk_FR%22%3A%7B%22val%22%3A1%2C%22start%22%3A1417428000%2C%22end%22%3A1425290400%7D%7D; centralnotice_bannercount_fr12=22; centralnotice_bannercount_fr12-wait=14',
    'Connection': 'keep-alive',
}

response = requests.get('http://en.wikipedia.org/', cookies=cookies, headers=headers)

Note: you have to add "type": "module" to your package.json for the above example to work.

Contributing

I'd rather write programs to write programs than write programs.

— Dick Sites, Digital Equipment Corporation, 1985

First, make sure you're running Node 12 or greater.

If you add a new generator, you'll need to

export it in index.ts
update the list of supported languages in cli.ts (or it won't be accessible from the command line)
add it to test-utils.ts (to make it part of the testing)

If you want to add new functionality, start with a test.

create a file containing the curl command in test/fixtures/curl_commands/ with a descriptive filename like post_with_headers.sh
run npm run gen-test post_with_headers to save the result of converting that file to test/fixtures/<language>/ with a matching filename but different extension like post_with_headers.py
modifying the parser in util.ts or the generators in src/generators/ and re-run npm run gen-test until your test is converted correctly
run npm test to make sure the new test passes

The parser generates a generic data structure consumed by code generator functions.

You can run a specific test with:

npm test -- test_name

where test_name is a file (with or without the .sh extension) in test/fixtures/curl_commands/

You can run only the tests for a specific language generator with:

npm test -- --language python

Contributors

jeayu (Java support)
Muhammad Reza Irvanda (python env vars)
Weslen Nascimento (Node fetch)
Roman Druzki (Backlog scrubbing, parsing improvements)
NoahCardoza (Command line interface)
ssi-anik (JSON support)
hrbrmstr (R support)
daniellockard (Go support)
eliask (improve python output)
trdarr (devops and code style)
nashe (fix PHP output)
bfontaine (reduce code duplication in test suite)
seadog007
nicktimko
wkalt
nico202
r3m0t
csells (Dart support)
yanshiyason (Elixir support)
Robertof (Rust enhancements, correctness, es6)
clintonc (Code quality / brevity, test suite consistency)
MarkReeder (JSON formatting)
cf512 (bugfixes and feature requests)
DainisGorbunovs (MATLAB support)
TennyZhuang (data-raw support)
scottsteinbeck (CFML support)