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trurl is a command line tool for URL parsing and manipulation.

Language: C

#11 in Node.js
#6 in Parsing
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bagder (of curl) also made trurl to address URL manipulation:

https://github.com/curl/trurl

New tool from curl creator – trurl – for URL parsing and manipulation | Apr 2023
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Ok, we've changed the URL to that from https://github.com/curl/trurl. Thanks!
New tool from curl creator – trurl – for URL parsing and manipulation | Apr 2023
https://github.com/curl/trurl

Apparently, it requires curl 7.81 to compile, but I'm on ubuntu 20 (7.6x) and wanted to do a quick try, so this patch makes it work (trivially) by removing the couple of new symbols depending on that newer version. Just a quick hack to compile.

   --- a/trurl.c
   +++ b/trurl.c
   @@ -362,11 +362,12 @@ static void get(struct option *op, CURLU *uh)
         case CURLUE_NO_PORT:
         case CURLUE_NO_QUERY:
         case CURLUE_NO_FRAGMENT:
   -            case CURLUE_NO_ZONEID:
   +            // would require 7.81
   +            // case CURLUE_NO_ZONEID:
           /\* silently ignore */
           break;
         default:
   -              fprintf(stderr, PROGNAME ": %s (%s)\n", curl_url_strerror(rc),
   +              fprintf(stderr, PROGNAME ": %s (%s)\n", rc,
            variables[i].name);
           break;
         }
   @@ -589,8 +590,8 @@ static void singleurl(struct option *o,
           CURLU_GUESS_SCHEME|CURLU_NON_SUPPORT_SCHEME);
          if(rc) {
     if(o->verify)
   -          errorf(ERROR_BADURL, "%s [%s]", curl_url_strerror(rc), url);
   -        warnf("%s [%s]", curl_url_strerror(rc), url);
   +          errorf(ERROR_BADURL, "%s [%s]", rc, url);
   +        warnf("%s [%s]", rc, url);
          }
          else {
     if(o->redirect)