cURL command formatter

One option per line

The formatter puts the URL and each option on its own line with a trailing backslash, the way people write cURL by hand, and pretty-prints a JSON or XML request body so it is readable too. Because POST is implied by a body, the explicit -X POST is dropped; the method is still shown in the Request view. A compact one-line form is available through Minify.

See the request, not the flags

Switch to the Request view to see the same command broken down into its parts: method, URL, query parameters, headers, authentication, cookies and body. It is quicker than decoding -H, -u and -d by eye. The cURL parser page covers that view in detail.

Not every command is cURL

If what you pasted is a Docker, kubectl, Git or other shell command rather than an HTTP request, use the shell command formatter. It converts long commands between single-line and multi-line forms. cURL is a shell command too, so it works there as well, but this page adds the HTTP-level view.

Never executed

A cURL command is parsed as text. DocuFormat never runs it and never makes the request, so you can inspect commands you do not fully trust, including ones that contain shell operators. Anything after a shell operator such as | or && is ignored and flagged.

Mind the secrets

Authorization headers and tokens are shown as written, not masked. Formatting is local, but if you choose an AI action, the command is sent to the AI provider, so remove real credentials first.

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