npm install -g curlformat

I like to do this in Firefox or Chrome. The output is unreadable though.

So what?

This untangles that. Type f in your terminal, then paste the curl command. Your command line should look like this:

$ fcurl 'http://site.com/article/new' -H 'Host: site.com' -H 'Connection: 
keep-alive' -H 'Accept-Language: en-us' -d "title=Hello&body=Welcome%20to%20" ...

BAM! Now its readable!

http POST "http://site.com/article/new" \
  title="Hello" \
  body="Welcome to my site!"

That's sweet.

I know. Now pass --extended to make print more stuff that would've been supressed.

http OPTIONS "http://site.com/users" \
  Connection:"keep-alive" \
  Access-Control-Request-Method:"GET" \
  Origin:"http://site.com" \
  Accept-Encoding:"gzip, deflate" \
  ...

Cool beans

Oh and you can also install httpie. The output of curlformat is compatible with httpie.

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