From 5a9a414d82931d16de65e7a95dc476b33f94bfd0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rishi-gdrx <rishikeshan.ns@partners.goodrx.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:59:30 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Add Request.to_curl() as the inverse of Request.from_curl()

Closes #7743.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
---
 docs/topics/request-response.rst |  2 ++
 scrapy/http/request/__init__.py  | 10 ++++++++++
 tests/test_http_request.py       | 13 +++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/topics/request-response.rst b/docs/topics/request-response.rst
index f2fcfb0b5..624a5c8dd 100644
--- a/docs/topics/request-response.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/request-response.rst
@@ -257,6 +257,8 @@ Request objects
 
     .. automethod:: from_curl
 
+    .. automethod:: to_curl
+
     .. automethod:: to_dict
 
 
diff --git a/scrapy/http/request/__init__.py b/scrapy/http/request/__init__.py
index 73c2e7dd4..ce43dccb8 100644
--- a/scrapy/http/request/__init__.py
+++ b/scrapy/http/request/__init__.py
@@ -381,6 +381,16 @@ class Request(object_ref):
         request_kwargs.update(kwargs)
         return cls(**request_kwargs)
 
+    def to_curl(self) -> str:
+        """Return a string with a cURL command equivalent to this request.
+
+        Inverse of :meth:`from_curl`. See also
+        :func:`scrapy.utils.request.request_to_curl`.
+        """
+        from scrapy.utils.request import request_to_curl
+
+        return request_to_curl(self)
+
     def to_dict(self, *, spider: scrapy.Spider | None = None) -> dict[str, Any]:
         """Return a dictionary containing the Request's data.
 
diff --git a/tests/test_http_request.py b/tests/test_http_request.py
index 1941b826f..fb752dd50 100644
--- a/tests/test_http_request.py
+++ b/tests/test_http_request.py
@@ -406,6 +406,19 @@ class TestRequest:
         with pytest.raises(RuntimeError):
             NO_CALLBACK()
 
+    def test_to_curl(self):
+        request = self.request_class(
+            "https://www.httpbin.org/post",
+            method="POST",
+            headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"},
+            body='{"foo": "bar"}',
+        )
+        assert request.to_curl() == (
+            "curl -X POST https://www.httpbin.org/post"
+            ' --data-raw \'{"foo": "bar"}\''
+            " -H 'Content-Type: application/json'"
+        )
+
     def test_from_curl(self):
         # Note: more curated tests regarding curl conversion are in
         # `test_utils_curl.py`