"Copy to cURL" in Chrome to Apache Bench command

curl_to_ab.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sys
import os


def curl_to_ab(curl_cmd: list, num: int=200, cur: int=4) -> str:
    """
    Translate a cURL command created by Chrome's developer tools into a
    command for ``ab``, the ApacheBench HTTP benchmarking tool.

    Parameters
    ----------
    curl_cmd
        The string given to you by the "Copy to cURL" context action in
        Chrome's developer tools.
    num : int
        The number of requests ApacheBench should make in total
    cur : int
        The number of concurrent requests ApacheBench should make

    Note
    ----
    Not all headers play nice with ApacheBench, so ``headers_to_copy`` has
    been set to a reasonable default. Tweak this if you need something
    else in there.
    """
    url = curl_cmd[1]
    headers_to_copy = [
        'Origin',
        'Authorization',
        'Accept'
    ]
    headers = []

    for i, part in enumerate(curl_cmd):
        if part == '-H':
            header = curl_cmd[i+1]
            if any([h in header for h in headers_to_copy]):
                headers.append("'{}'".format(header))

    cmd = ['ab -n {} -c {}'.format(num, cur)]
    cmd += ['-H {}'.format(part) for part in headers]
    cmd.append("'{}'".format(url))

    return ' '.join(cmd)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    """Usage: python curl_to_ab.py <cURL command from Chrome>
    """
    os.system(curl_to_ab(sys.argv[1:]))

not all heros wear capes!

I wasn't expecting google to find something this perfect ❤️

@ctolsen Thanks for sharing! I had to slightly tweak it so that it used my current session (I was testing an authenticated URL)

https://gist.github.com/etagwerker/eeb54fa1fdcd8ea6d5b9b168fdfa9952

I wasn't expecting google to find something this perfect ❤️

Neither did I. I guess @ctolson and @google got together earlier and figured that out?

🥇

Helped me a lot so I published it online to be more easy to use.
-> https://curl2ab.ahivert.dev

@ahivert, that is awesome, but please update the output command to take the URL in quotes. Otherwise it blows up in the command line, especially for URLs with parameters like http://foo.bar/path?param1=value2&param2=value2

Thanks @pokrovskyy I fixed it

@ctolsen Thanks for sharing!

@ahivert it doesnt work with POST requests.

❤️ it, thanks!

Forked to add support for POST data using a temp file (Chrome uses --data-binary and --data-raw for POST): https://gist.github.com/odony/93086f5c917e777cb2f4d0c04d477545