Uurl

Universal url: a transformer and manipulator for Urls.

Inspiration

• Xurl (GitHub): A command-line utility to manipulate urls.
• urlmatic (GitHub): Slice and dice URLs on the command line.
• trurl (introductory blog post): trurl is a command line tool for URL parsing and manipulation.

Features

• Extract various URL components
• Rewrite/modify various URL components
• Replace URLs based on template expressions
• Sort and otherwise normalize query strings
• Normalize and Clean URLs
  • This will require a URL classifier as different URL components are different based on their domain
  • Remove tracking parameters
  • Remove unnecessary parameters
  • Limit characters to valid characters
  • Git URLs
    • HTTP vs SSH
    • Be able to switch between various git providers
    • Truncate a github url to it's basic path i.e. ORG_OR_USER/REPO
• Switch between lib.rs and crates.io