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The curl_parser package enables seamless conversion between cURL commands and Dart objects, facilitating the parsing of cURL syntax into structured data and vice versa. It supports all major platforms including Android, iOS, Web, macOS, Windows, and Linux. Ideal for developers working with API requests, it simplifies debugging, testing, and code generation by transforming cURL commands into usable Dart representations. The package is particularly useful in tools that handle HTTP request manipulation or integration with API documentation systems.
Use cases
Converting cURL commands to Dart objects for programmatic use
Generating cURL commands from Dart HTTP requests
Debugging API calls by inspecting parsed cURL syntax
Integrating with API documentation tools
Automating HTTP request testing workflows
Key features
Parse cURL commands into structured Dart objects
Convert Dart HTTP objects back to cURL format
Supports all major platforms
Accurate handling of headers, methods, and body content
Lightweight and easy to integrate
Suitable for
API development tools
Testing frameworks
Code generation utilities
Developer CLI tools
Documentation integrations
Considerations
Requires valid cURL syntax for successful parsing
Limited to basic cURL features (no advanced options like SSL settings)
Not intended for runtime HTTP execution
Best suited for static analysis or transformation tasks
Depends on correct input formatting
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API Dash is a beautiful AI powered open-source cross-platform API Client that can help you easily create & customize your API requests, visually inspect responses (full list of supported mime-types) and generate API integration code (full list) on the go.
Create different types of HTTP requests (GET, HEAD, POST, PATCH, PUT and DELETE).
Easily manipulate and play around with request inputs like headers, query parameters and body.
Full support to send text content with 🥳 Unicode/Emoji and preview any API response containing Unicode/Emoji.
Create GraphQL requests with headers and query.
💼 Organize Requests in Collections & Folders
Create collections and folders to organize your requests.
Press and Drag to Re-arrange requests.
Click and open popup menu to rename, duplicate and delete a request.
🔎 Visually Preview and Download Data & Multimedia API Responses
Inspect the API Response (HTTP status code, error message, headers, body, time taken).
View formatted code previews for responses of various content types like JSON, XML, YAML, HTML, SQL, etc.
API Dash helps explore, test & preview Multimedia API responses which is not supported by any other API client. You can directly test APIs that return images, PDF, audio & more. Check out the full list of supported MIME types/formats here.
Save 💾 response body of any mimetype (image, text, etc.) directly in the Downloads folder of your system by clicking on the Download button.
👩🏻💻 Code Generation
We started out as the only open source API client which supported advanced Dart code generation to easily integrate APIs in Dart/Flutter projects or to directly run it on DartPad. With time we have added more code-gens and currently API Dash supports generation of well-tested integration codes for JavaScript, Python, Kotlin & various other languages. You can check out the full list of supported languages/libraries.
🌙 Full Dark Mode Support
Easily switch between light mode and dark mode.
💾 Data
Data is persisted locally on the disk. To save the current snapshot, just press the Save button in the collection pane.
Click and open the collection/folder popup menu to export it as HAR. This can be version controlled & can be directly imported in other API Clients like Postman, Paw, etc.
Export your entire data into a HAR (HTTP Archive) file. To access this option goto Settings > Export Data.
⚙️ Settings & Other Options
Customize various options using a dedicated Settings screen.
Window Configuration (Size & Position) is persisted and restored on app start. (Only macOS & Windows)
AI Requests
API Dash lets you test AI APIs of various providers (or your own).
DashBot
Dashbot is the AI assistant available in API Dash (powered by local or cloud LLM) so that you can interact with your requests to debug it, generate code, generate doc, and many more.
Code Generators
API Dash currently supports API integration code generation for the following languages/libraries.
Language
Library
cURL
HAR
C
libcurl
C#
HttpClient
C#
RestSharp
Dart
http
Dart
dio
Go
net/http
JavaScript
axios
JavaScript
fetch
JavaScript (node.js)
axios
JavaScript (node.js)
fetch
Java
asynchttpclient
Java
HttpClient
Java
okhttp3
Java
Unirest
Julia
HTTP
Kotlin
okhttp3
PHP
curl
PHP
guzzle
PHP
HTTPlug
Python
requests
Python
http.client
Ruby
faraday
Ruby
net/http
Rust
hyper
Rust
reqwest
Rust
ureq
Rust
Actix Client
Swift
Alamofire
Swift
URLSession
Code for any other langauge can be easily generated via DashBot.
MIME Types supported by API Dash Response Previewer
API Dash is a next-gen API client that supports exploring, testing & previewing various data & multimedia API responses which is limited/not supported by other API clients. You can directly test APIs that return images, PDF, audio & more.
Here is the complete list of MIME types that can be directly previewed in API Dash:
File Type
Mimetype
Extension
Comment
PDF
application/pdf
.pdf
Video
video/mp4
.mp4
Video
video/webm
.webm
Video
video/x-ms-wmv
.wmv
Video
video/x-ms-asf
.wmv
Video
video/avi
.avi
Video
video/msvideo
.avi
Video
video/x-msvideo
.avi
Video
video/quicktime
.mov
Video
video/x-quicktime
.mov
Video
video/x-matroska
.mkv
Image
image/apng
.apng
Animated
Image
image/avif
.avif
Image
image/bmp
.bmp
Image
image/gif
.gif
Animated
Image
image/jpeg
.jpeg or .jpg
Image
image/jp2
.jp2
Image
image/jpx
.jpf or .jpx
Image
image/pict
.pct
Image
image/portable-anymap
.pnm
Image
image/png
.png
Image
image/sgi
.sgi
Image
image/svg+xml
.svg
Image
image/tiff
.tiff
Image
image/targa
.tga
Image
image/vnd.wap.wbmp
.wbmp
Image
image/webp
.webp
Image
image/xwindowdump
.xwd
Image
image/x-icon
.ico
Image
image/x-portable-anymap
.pnm
Image
image/x-portable-bitmap
.pbm
Image
image/x-portable-graymap
.pgm
Image
image/x-portable-pixmap
.ppm
Image
image/x-tga
.tga
Image
image/x-xwindowdump
.xwd
Audio
audio/flac
.flac
Audio
audio/mpeg
.mp3
Audio
audio/mp4
.m4a or .mp4a
Audio
audio/x-m4a
.m4a
Audio
audio/wav
.wav
Audio
audio/wave
.wav
CSV
text/csv
.csv
Can be improved
We welcome PRs to add support for previewing other multimedia MIME types. Please go ahead and raise an issue so that we can discuss the approach.
We are adding support for other MIME types with each release. But, if you are looking for any particular mimetype support, please go ahead and open an issue. We will prioritize it's addition.
Here is the complete list of MIME types that are syntax highlighted in API Dash:
Mimetype
Extension
Comment
application/json
.json
Other MIME types like application/geo+json, application/vcard+json that are based on json are also supported.
application/xml
.xml
Other MIME types like application/xhtml+xml, application/vcard+xml that are based on xml are also supported.
To add a new feature, resolve an existing issue or add a new test to the project, check out our Contribution Guidelines.
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