2026-09-09
The usual reason to go looking for a curlconverter.com alternative is what is inside the cURL command you are converting. A command copied out of a browser's Network tab or an API's docs almost always carries more than the URL: an Authorization header with a live bearer token, a session cookie, an API key in a -H flag. The cURL Converter parses and generates the code entirely in your browser, so you can open your Network tab while you paste a command and confirm that nothing carrying it leaves the page.
It covers ten targets: JavaScript (fetch), Node.js (axios), Python (requests), PHP (cURL), Go (net/http), Rust (reqwest), Java (HttpClient), C# (HttpClient), PowerShell and Ruby (Net::HTTP). Beyond the method, URL, headers and body it understands -u basic auth, -b cookies, -A, -e, -L, -k, --compressed, --json, --data-urlencode, -I and -G, and each tab says how to run the code it produced. Any flag it cannot convert is listed under the output so you know what to add by hand.
Where it is narrower: curlconverter.com supports many more target languages and a wider set of cURL flags. Multipart forms (-F), file uploads, proxies and client certificates are reported as not converted here. If your language is not in the list above, or your command depends on those flags, curlconverter.com is the better fit.
If you are converting to one of the ten languages above and the command has a real token or cookie in it, iLoveDevTools gives you the snippet without that data leaving your browser.