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curlwtf - Paste a curl. Get a break-down, and Python/JS/Go equivalents

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Paste any curl command and instantly get a plain-English explanation. Understand every flag, check for security issues, and get Python, JavaScript, and Go equivalents. Free curl explainer.

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Hey Product Hunt 👋I'm Alex, and I built curlwtf because I kept running into the same problem: someone pastes a curl command in Slack, or a README tells me to run one, and I have no idea what it actually does before I hit enter.I'd Google "what does this curl command do" and get nothing useful. Every result was either a generic curl tutorial or a curl-to-code converter. Nobody was just explaining the command in plain English.So I built it.What it does: Paste any curl command, get a plain-English breakdown of every flag Identifies which API you're hitting (Stripe, GitHub, OpenAI, Shopify, etc.) Flags security issues — leaked API keys, -k (skipped SSL), plaintext auth, | sh pipes Gives you copy-paste equivalents in Python, JavaScript, Node, and Go Shareable URLs so you can paste explanations in PRs and Slack threads