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Dev tools · December 30, 2013

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embedcurl.com - Pretty curl commands for your web site or blog

Hey all, As a CEO of a growing startup I don't get to code as often as I like and when I do, I try not to annoy my team with my terrible code :) So to scratch the itch, I've built some of side projects related to what our company does. The latest is embedcurl.com I see a lot of API docs and blogs posting curl commands that are really hard to read and I figured I could make them easier to read and add some niceties like easier copy/paste, tooltips on flags, etc. They also gracefully degrade if javascript isn't enabled back to a element. The parsing is done in Python with shlex and…

embedcurl.com - Pretty curl commands for your web site or blog launched on December 30, 2013 with 32 votes, #404 of 927 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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Embedcurl.com is a tool that transforms curl commands into readable, embeddable widgets for API documentation and blog posts. It makes curl syntax easier to read, adds interactive features like tooltips on flags and one-click copying, and includes a copy-paste button for convenience. The tool gracefully falls back to plain text if JavaScript is disabled, and uses Python parsing for reliability. It's designed for developers and technical writers who need to display API commands clearly online.

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Hey all, As a CEO of a growing startup I don't get to code as often as I like and when I do, I try not to annoy my team with my terrible code :) So to scratch the itch, I've built some of side projects related to what our company does. The latest is embedcurl.com I see a lot of API docs and blogs posting curl…

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