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, ruby, rust, csharp, 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)

License

MIT © Nick Carneiro