Simulate a specific CURL in PostMan

Question

I am using Postman to test some Curl requests to an API server  The API developers gave us the curl command  but I can t send it from the Postman  How to make such a request from the Postman   curl -X POST  https   api-server com API index php member signin  -d    description      phone      lastname      app version   2 6 2   firstname      password   my pass   city      apikey   213   lang   fr   platform   1   email   email example com   pseudo   example     --0xKhTmLbOuNdArY Content-Disposition  form-data  name  userfile   filename  profil jpg  Content-Type  image jpeg Content-Transfer-Encoding  binary   lt ffd8ffe0 00104a46 49460001 01010048     a00fffd9 gt      0xKhTmLbOuNdArY

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1  Put https   api-server com API index php member signin in the url input box and choose POST from the dropdown  2  In Headers tab  enter   Content-Type  image jpeg  Content-Transfer-Encoding  binary  3  In Body tab  select the raw radio button and write     description      phone      lastname      app version   2 6 2   firstname      password   my pass   city      apikey   213   lang   fr   platform   1   email   email example com   pseudo   example    select form-data radio button and write   key   name Value   userfile   Select Text key   filename   Select File and upload your profil jpg

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In addition to the answer 1  Open POSTMAN 2  Click on  import  tab on the upper left side  3  Select the Raw Text option and paste your cURL command  4  Hit import and you will have the command in your Postman builder  5  If -u admin admin are not imported  just go to the Authorization     tab  select Basic Auth - gt  enter the user name eg admin and password eg admin  This will automatically generate Authorization header based on Base64 encoder

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sometimes whenever you copy cURL  it contains --compressed  Remove it while import- Paste Raw Text-- click on import  It will also solve the problem if you are getting the syntax error in postman while importing any cURL   Generally  when people copy cURL from any proxy tools like Charles  it happens

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I tried the approach mentioned by Onkaar Singh     Open POSTMAN  Click on  import  tab on the upper left side   Select the Raw Text option and paste your cURL command   Hit import and you will have the command in your Postman builder    But the problem is it didn t work for the Apis which requires authorisation   This was my curl request    curl -v -H  Accept  application json  -H  Content-type  application json  -X POST -d      customer id   812122    event   add to cart    email    abc def com       -u 9f4d7f5445e7  https   api myapp com api event   After importing the body got imported correctly  the headers and the Url also got imported  Only the api key 9f4d7f5445e7 which is   -u 9f4d7f5445e7  https   api myapp com api v1 event    in the curl request did not import   The way I solved it is  -u is basically used for Authorization  So while using it in Postman  you have to take the API key  which is 9f4d7f5445e7 in this case  and do Base64 Encode  Once encoded it will return the value OWY0ZDdmNTQ0NWU3  Then add a new header  the key name would be Authorization and key value would be Basic OWY0ZDdmNTQ0NWU3  After making that changes  the request worked for me   There are online Base64 Encoders available  the one I used is http   www url-encode-decode com base64-encode-decode   Hope it helps

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As per the above answers  it works well  If we paste curl requests with Authorization data in import  Postman will set all headers automatically  We only just pass row JSON data in the request body if needed or Upload images through form-data in the body  This is just an example  Your API should be a different one  if your API allows  curl -X POST  https   verifyUser abc com api v1 verification        -H  secret  secret        -H  email  user gmail com        -H  accept  application json  text plain             -H  authorizationtoken  bearer        -F  referenceFilePath  Add file path        --compressed

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As mentioned in multiple answers above you can import the cURL in POSTMAN directly  But if URL is authorized  or is not working for some reason  ill suggest you can manually add all the data points as JSON in your postman body  take the API URL from the cURL   for the Authorization part- just add an Authorization key and base 64 encoded string as value   example   curl -u rzp test 26ccbdbfe0e84b 69b2e24411e384f91213f22a      https   api razorpay com v1 orders    -X POST      --data  amount 50000       --data  currency INR       --data  receipt Receipt  20       --data  payment capture 1     https   api razorpay com v1 orders         amount    5000        currency    INR        receipt    Receipt  20        payment capture    1     Headers  Authorization Basic cnpwX3Rlc3RfWEk5QW5TU0N3RlhjZ0Y6dURjVThLZ3JiQVVnZ3JNS   U056V25J where  cnpwX3Rlc3RfWEk5QW5TU0N3RlhjZ0Y6dURjVThLZ3JiQVVnZ3JNS   U056V25J  is the encoded form of  rzp test 26ccbdbfe0e84b 69b2e24411e384f91213f22a    small tip  for encoding  you can easily go to your chrome console  right-click    inspect  and type   btoa  string you want to encode     or use postman basic authorization

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A simpler approach would be    Open POSTMAN Click on  import  tab on the upper left side  Select the Raw Text option and paste your cURL command  Hit import and you will have the command in your Postman builder  Click Send to post the command   Hope this helps

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