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Re: Convert Curl Syntax to Python Requests

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Post by duckmysick » Fri, Oct 11, 2019, 3:56 PM UTC

SEJeff wrote: post #4

Failed entirely to work on my first attempt with: curl -XHEAD https://google.com It is just flat out wrong on: curl -X HEAD https://google.com In that it does a GET request: import requests response = requests.get('https://google.com/') Clever idea, but my first totally valid example failed (it does OPTIONS, GET, POST, PUT, PATCH successfully)

In case the creator of this tool doesn't read this thread, you can report the issues on GitHub: https://github.com/NickCarneiro/curlconverter/issues

Re: Convert Curl Syntax to Python Requests

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Post by OJFord » Fri, Oct 11, 2019, 4:06 PM UTC

SEJeff wrote: post #4

Failed entirely to work on my first attempt with: curl -XHEAD https://google.com It is just flat out wrong on: curl -X HEAD https://google.com In that it does a GET request: import requests response = requests.get('https://google.com/') Clever idea, but my first totally valid example failed (it does OPTIONS, GET, POST, PUT, PATCH successfully)

`curl --head` (short form: `-I`) is converted correctly though, and `curl -X HEAD` (or `-XHEAD`) does generate warnings telling you to use `--head`/`-I`.

Re: Convert Curl Syntax to Python Requests

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Post by runnr_az » Fri, Oct 11, 2019, 4:08 PM UTC

hey... that's super handy. thx!

Re: Convert Curl Syntax to Python Requests

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Oct 11, 2019, 4:09 PM UTC

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Re: Convert Curl Syntax to Python Requests

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Post by daolf » Fri, Oct 11, 2019, 4:15 PM UTC

For those interested in integrating such a feature on their website.

An helper for building API request, for example, there is this great open source project: https://github.com/Kong/apiembed/

It supports a dozen of language.

Re: Convert Curl Syntax to Python Requests

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Post by keymone » Fri, Oct 11, 2019, 4:17 PM UTC

reminds me of a little clojure macro i wrote to demonstrate "power" of macros in lisp: https://gist.github.com/keymone/d7725767dc0425a7bcf9, obviously not feature-complete but sufficed for the demonstration

Re: Convert Curl Syntax to Python Requests

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Post by sikhnerd » Fri, Oct 11, 2019, 4:34 PM UTC

The capability to convert a network request from one format to another is the main reason I use Postman, which has a great implementation of this and a ton of tools and languages it can do it in. This looks great as well

Re: Convert Curl Syntax to Python Requests

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Post by mycodebreaks » Fri, Oct 11, 2019, 4:46 PM UTC

Is it all client side?

I wonder how many cookies/secret headers will be pasted by unaware and unknowing users.

Re: Convert Curl Syntax to Python Requests

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Post by rgovostes » Fri, Oct 11, 2019, 4:47 PM UTC

I've also written a tool that converts curl commands to Python Requests or JavaScript XMLHttpRequest code. It is tested with curl commands generated by Safari, Burp Suite, and Charles Proxy. It can also translate raw HTTP requests, so it can be used when you have a packet capture.

The design is modular and separates the frontend (curl) from the backend (Python), so more input and output formats can be added. It tries to be smart about generating "clean" code, so it will, for example, remove the Content-Length header when it can be recomputed from the request content.

https://ryan.govost.es/http-translator/

It is also open source. Feedback or pull requests are welcome. https://github.com/rgov/http-translator

Re: Convert Curl Syntax to Python Requests

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Post by agordhandas » Fri, Oct 11, 2019, 4:55 PM UTC

I independently used this tool a couple days ago. Helped save me a lot of debug time!