Generate cURL string representation from libcurl instance

Question

I was wondering if it is possible to generate cURL string from a libcurl instance. For example if I'm using the node binding for libcurl as below,

const curl = new Curl();
curl.setOpt(Curl.option.URL, "https://httpbin.org/get");

Is it possible to somehow generate the following from this instance?

curl https://httpbin.org/get

An alternative approach is to record the full HTTP request that was generated and convert *that* into a curl command line with [h2c](https://curl.haxx.se/h2c/). — Daniel Stenberg, Nov 13 '19 at 08:53

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 12 '19 at 12:42

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This is not possible with libcurl and so it's not possible with the Node.js bindings, node-libcurl.

To do that you will need to create a wrapper around the Curl instance and keep track of the options being set on it, you can then use that information to build the command line arguments.

disclaimer: I'm the author of the node.js bindings

answered Nov 12 '19 at 12:42

jonathancardoso

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Thanks @JCM I'll try to follow that approach. – scriptonist Nov 12 '19 at 16:10

Generate cURL string representation from libcurl instance

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