Convert Curl to Python Requests

This page opens the converter with Python already selected as the target: paste a curl command, press the button and get code built on requests — the de facto standard HTTP library that virtually every Python codebase uses instead of the verbose built-in urllib.

The translation is structural, not textual. -H flags become a headers dict, a JSON -d body is parsed and rendered as a real Python dict passed via json= (so requests sets Content-Type and serialization for you), -u user:pass becomes auth=(user, pass), and -F fields turn into files= with open(..., 'rb') for uploads. HTTP methods map onto requests.get/post/put/patch/delete, falling back to requests.request() for anything exotic.

The typical workflow: copy a request from API documentation (most docs give examples as curl), or right-click a request in browser DevTools and choose Copy as cURL, paste it here and drop the generated snippet into your script. Everything is parsed locally in your browser — important, because copied commands routinely contain live API keys. Need JavaScript or PHP instead? Switch the target language in the same tool.