I Was Tired of Pasting curl Commands into ChatGPT Just to Convert Them — So I Built a Free Converte

If you work with APIs, this is a familiar loop: you copy a curl command from Postman, an API doc, or your browser's dev tools network tab — and now you need it as actual code in your project. Python requests? JavaScript fetch? PHP? You either hand-translate it (slow, error-prone with headers and escaped quotes) or paste it into an AI chatbot and wait.

I got tired of that loop, so I added a curl to code converter to SamToolkit — a free, browser-based dev tools site. Here's why I built it, how it works, and how it's different from most converters out there.

The problem with copy-pasted curl commands

A typical curl command copied from Chrome's "Copy as cURL" looks like this:

curl -X POST https://api.example.com/users \