---
title: churl
description: Fetch a URL through a real browser so JavaScript runs, then print the rendered HTML, text, or JSON — with an optional HAR alongside.
icon: download
---
# churl
`churl` is shaped like `curl`, but every request runs in a real browser. That
is the whole point: a page that renders its content from JavaScript comes back
rendered, not as the empty shell `curl` would print.
```bash
churl https://example.com
```
```html
Example Domain…
```
The default output is the rendered HTML — the DOM after scripts ran, not the
bytes the server sent.
## Output formats
```bash
churl --output-format=text https://example.com
churl --output-format=json https://example.com
churl --output-format=pdf -o page.pdf https://example.com
churl --har capture.har https://example.com # any format, plus a HAR
churl -o page.html https://example.com
```
`json` returns `url`, `title`, and `content`. `text` is the extracted text, and
it includes the contents of `