hurl(1)

💅 hurlfmt — like, the whole page, bestie

okay so real talk, we're deep in the Hurl Manual right now, and this is the hurlfmt page — the formatter/glow-up machine for your Hurl files. Let's go 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

hurlfmt — format Hurl files 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

hurlfmt [options] [FILE...]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So hurlfmt formats Hurl files, and it also converts them from and to other formats. It's giving multitasking icon 💅

With no FILE, it reads standard input. (Yes, it'll just sit there and wait for you to pipe something in. Main character energy.)

By default, hurlfmt outputs a formatted and colorized version of the input hurl file.

$ hurl hello.hurl
GET http://localhost:8000/hello

HTTP/1.0 200

hurlfmt can be used to convert to other format too. Watch this 🔥

$ hurl hello.hurl --output json | jq
{
  "entries": [
    {
      "request": {
        "method": "GET",
        "url": "http://localhost:8000/hello"
      },
      "response": {
        "version": "HTTP/1.0",
        "status": 200
      }
    }
  ]
}

And hurlfmt can also convert a curl command-line to Hurl, which is honestly so iconic of it:

$ echo "curl http://localhost:8000/custom-headers -H
'Fruit:Raspberry'" | hurlfmt --in curl
GET http://localhost:8000/custom-headers
Fruit: Raspberry

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👑 ALL OPTIONS 👑

Every single one, no skipping, periodt ✨

• --check — runs in check mode. Exits with 0 if the input is formatted correctly, 1 otherwise. You can not use this with --output. Also heads up: this option is not stable yet 🙈
• --color — colorizes the output 💖 You can not use this with --in-place.
• --in <FORMAT> — specifies the input format: hurl or curl.
• --in-place — modifies the file in place 🫶 This can be used only with text output.
• --no-color — do not colorize the output.
• --out <FORMAT> — specifies the output format: hurl, json or html.
• -o, --output <FILE> — writes the output to FILE instead of stdout.
• --standalone — outputs a full html file with css instead of an html fragment (which is the default). This can be used only with html output.
• -h, --help — usage help. we love a helper 💜
• -V, --version — prints version information ⭐

real one: --check is not stable yet, so don't build your whole personality around it just yet 😭

💀 EXIT CODES 💀

• 1 — Failed to parse command-line options.
• 2 — Input File Parsing Error.

🌈 WWW 🌈

https://hurl.dev — go say hi 🦋

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

hurl(1) — iykyk, go read that one next 🎀

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okay that's the whole page bestie, no cap, nothing skipped 💅 sign-off time: this was hurl 8.1.0, dated 27 Oct 2026 — mwah, slay, go format something pretty 🌸