I can successfully curl an endpoint and get a 200 response, but when I use the curl to fetch converter, the api plains about on of the body params. I don't have any control over the api so I'm not really sure what's going on there.

Here is my successful curl:

curl -v -X POST https://someurl -d 'param1=someValue' -d 'param2=somOtherValue'

Using /, suggests using following body in the fetch request:

"param1=someValue&param2=someOtherValue"

But using that gives me the response:

Param1 is not valid

Any idea on what the fetch body should look like to make it work just like the curl?

EDIT:

Converting the fetch back to a curl helps to understand the difference. So, this works:

curl -v -X POST https://someurl -d 'param1=someValue' -d 'param2=someOtherValue'

But this doesn't:

curl -v -X POST https://someurl -d 'param1=someValue&param2=someOtherValue'

This seems to be the case for this specific api, still I can't change the api so I would like to find the equivalent fetch body for the first curl

I can successfully curl an endpoint and get a 200 response, but when I use the curl to fetch converter, the api plains about on of the body params. I don't have any control over the api so I'm not really sure what's going on there.

Here is my successful curl:

curl -v -X POST https://someurl -d 'param1=someValue' -d 'param2=somOtherValue'

Using https://kigiri.github.io/fetch/, suggests using following body in the fetch request:

"param1=someValue&param2=someOtherValue"

But using that gives me the response:

Param1 is not valid

Any idea on what the fetch body should look like to make it work just like the curl?

EDIT:

Converting the fetch back to a curl helps to understand the difference. So, this works:

curl -v -X POST https://someurl -d 'param1=someValue' -d 'param2=someOtherValue'

But this doesn't:

curl -v -X POST https://someurl -d 'param1=someValue&param2=someOtherValue'

This seems to be the case for this specific api, still I can't change the api so I would like to find the equivalent fetch body for the first curl

• javascript
• curl
• fetch

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• Maybe try just adding the params to the URL: https://someurl? param1=someValue&param2=someOtherValue, and POST to that URL – sideshowbarker ♦ Commented Jul 2, 2019 at 10:08
• When you give -d 'param1=someValue&param2=someOtherValue' to CURL, it’s going to send someValue&param2=someOtherValue as the value for param1. To send multiple params with curl, you need to specify a separate -d option for each param. That’s why -d 'param1=someValue' -d 'param2=someOtherValue' works and -d 'param1=someValue&param2=someOtherValue' doesn’t. – sideshowbarker ♦ Commented Jul 2, 2019 at 10:10
• @sideshowbarker: ok, so how do I do this in a javascript fetch? When using the curl to fetch converter and then converting it back to a curl again, I end up with the wrong curl. So what should the fetch body look like? – Mike Commented Jul 2, 2019 at 11:12
• fetch("https://someurl?param1=someValue&param2=someOtherValue", {method: "POST"}) is what it would look like. With no request body and no additional request headers needed. – sideshowbarker ♦ Commented Jul 2, 2019 at 12:21
• @sideshowbarker: doesn't -d mean that it is to be sent in the post body? – Mike Commented Jul 2, 2019 at 13:18

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you can use this to convert curl to fetch:

fetch("https://someurl", {
  body: "param1=someValue&m2=somOtherValue",
  headers: {
    "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
  },
  method: "POST"
})

Working snippet

fetch("https://my-json-server.typicode./typicode/demo/posts", {
  body: "param1=someValue&m2=somOtherValue",
  headers: {
    "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
  },
  method: "POST"
}).then(res => console.log(res));

I use postman client to convert api request between languages.

1. Import -> Raw text (paste your curl mand here)

2. Code -> select your language

I personally use this online cURL Converter It support multiple programming languages such as python, php, ruby, etc.

Curl Snippet

curl -d "param1=value1&param2=value2" -X POST http://localhost:3000/data

Fetch Snippet

fetch("http://localhost:3000/data", {
    method: "POST",
    body: new URLSearchParams({
        param1: "value1",
        param2: "value2",
    }),
});