Code snippets

Code snippets turn a request into code you can paste into an app, a script or a bug report. Pick a language and the client writes the same method, URL, headers and body in that language’s usual HTTP library.

Get a snippet

1. Open an HTTP or GraphQL request.
2. Click Code in the request’s header.
3. Pick a language from the menu. The client remembers your choice for next time.
4. Click Copy, then Done.

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The Code snippet sheet.

1. Language
2. Fill in variables, or keep {{names}}
3. The generated code
4. Auth isn't included
5. Copy to the clipboard

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For a quick cURL command, right-click a request in the sidebar and choose Copy as cURL. It copies the request with variables filled in.

Languages

Menu name	Produces
cURL	A curl command for the shell.
Swift	URLRequest and URLSession with async/await.
JavaScript	fetch.
Python	The requests library. JSON bodies become a Python dictionary.
Go	net/http.
HTTPie	An http command.
Shell – wget	A wget command.
HTTP	The raw HTTP request.
NodeJS – Axios	Axios.
Python – http.client	Python’s standard-library http.client.
Java – OkHttp	OkHttp.
Kotlin – OkHttp	OkHttp from Kotlin.
C# – HttpClient	.NET HttpClient.
PHP – cURL	PHP’s cURL functions.
Ruby – Net::HTTP	Ruby’s Net::HTTP.
Rust – reqwest	The reqwest crate.
Dart – http	The http package.
PowerShell	Invoke-RestMethod.
C – libcurl	libcurl from C.
Markdown	A heading with the method and URL, a table of headers and the body in a code block, for docs and issues.

What’s in a snippet

The snippet is the request as it would be sent, minus anything that only happens when you click Send.

Included	Not included
Method and URL, with query params	Auth from the Authorization tab, or inherited from a folder or collection
Enabled headers	Pre-request and post-response scripts, and their changes
The body, when it’s text	Cookies from the client’s cookie jar
The Content-Type the body type adds	Request settings such as timeouts and TLS verification
Path variable values

Except in cURL and Markdown, snippets leave out the Host, Content-Length, Connection, Proxy-Connection and Accept-Encoding headers, which HTTP libraries set themselves.

To include auth in a snippet, add the header yourself on the Headers tab, for example Authorization: Bearer {{token}}. The sheet reminds you: “Auth headers are added when the request is sent, so they aren’t in the snippet unless set as headers.”

Fill in variables

Fill in variables is on by default. It replaces {{variables}} with their current values from the active environment, collection and globals, along with Vault secrets and fresh dynamic values. Turn it off to keep {{baseUrl}} and the rest as written, which is better for documentation and for sharing. Path variables are filled in either way.

Snippets can contain real secrets

With Fill in variables on, a snippet contains the real values of secret variables and {{vault:…}} references. Copy as cURL always fills them in. Turn the option off, or check the code, before you paste it into a chat, an issue or a document.

Other places to get code

• Exported HTML docs include a snippet for every request in ten of these languages, with variables kept as written. See Examples and docs.
• Captured traffic in the proxy can be copied as code too. See Copy as code.
• Whole client libraries: Generate SDK on a collection writes a TypeScript, Python or Swift SDK. See Generate docs, SDKs and MCP servers.

Related

Copy as codeCode from captured requests.

Variables and environmentsWhat Fill in variables uses.

AuthorizationWhy auth isn't in snippets.

Generate docs, SDKs and MCP serversGenerate whole client libraries.