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cURL to PHP converter
Paste a cURL command and get the same request in PHP, using PHP's cURL extension. It converts in your browser; nothing you paste is sent anywhere.
Converted in your browser. Nothing you paste is stored or sent, so a command with your API key in it stays on your machine.
<?php
$ch = curl_init('https://api.scraper.example/v1/scrape?url=https%3A%2F%2Fshop.example.com%2Fproducts%3Fpage%3D2&render_js=true&country=us');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY',
]);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
if ($response === false) {
echo 'Error: ' . curl_error($ch);
} else {
echo curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE) . PHP_EOL;
echo $response;
}
curl_close($ch);Running the code
It needs PHP's cURL extension, which most PHP installs include. Each curl flag becomes a curl_setopt line, because the extension is libcurl itself.
Where PHP's cURL extension differs from curl
PHP's cURL extension behaves like the curl command: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION is -L, CURLOPT_ENCODING with an empty string is --compressed, and CURLOPT_TIMEOUT is --max-time in seconds.
What calls like this one cost
The example is a scraping API call with JavaScript rendering on and a country chosen. 100,000 of them a month cost from $49.00 on ScrapeBadger, and the same pages without rendering from $19.00 on BrowserCloud, the cheapest complete bills across 27 web scraping APIs this site prices from their own pages. What rendering adds on each API