The &quot;copy as curl&quot; feature is very useful when doing penetration testing of a web app, because you can quickly iterate on what requests you&#x27;re sending. It also helps to download large files if, like me, you don&#x27;t trust browsers to download your files properly (or if you want to download something from a server).<p>APIs aren&#x27;t the only thing HTTP is used for. Although, you could stick curl commands in shell scripts as well to have dumb API scripts.<p>There are use cases for every feature.