"Copy to cURL" in Chrome to Apache Bench command

curl_to_ab.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sys
import os


def curl_to_ab(curl_cmd: list, num: int=200, cur: int=4) -> str:
    """
    Translate a cURL command created by Chrome's developer tools into a
    command for ``ab``, the ApacheBench HTTP benchmarking tool.

    Parameters
    ----------
    curl_cmd
        The string given to you by the "Copy to cURL" context action in
        Chrome's developer tools.
    num : int
        The number of requests ApacheBench should make in total
    cur : int
        The number of concurrent requests ApacheBench should make

    Note
    ----
    Not all headers play nice with ApacheBench, so ``headers_to_copy`` has
    been set to a reasonable default. Tweak this if you need something
    else in there.
    """
    url = curl_cmd[1]
    headers_to_copy = [
        'Origin',
        'Authorization',
        'Accept'
    ]
    headers = []

    for i, part in enumerate(curl_cmd):
        if part == '-H':
            header = curl_cmd[i+1]
            if any([h in header for h in headers_to_copy]):
                headers.append("'{}'".format(header))

    cmd = ['ab -n {} -c {}'.format(num, cur)]
    cmd += ['-H {}'.format(part) for part in headers]
    cmd.append("'{}'".format(url))

    return ' '.join(cmd)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    """Usage: python curl_to_ab.py <cURL command from Chrome>
    """
    os.system(curl_to_ab(sys.argv[1:]))

It's unclear to me how to use this tool:

> python3 curl_to_ab.py "curl http://www.google.com" 5 5
ab: invalid URL
Usage: ab [options] [http[s]://]hostname[:port]/path
Options are:
    -n requests     Number of requests to perform