rurl: Parse, Clean, and Normalize URLs

A lightweight toolkit for extracting structured information from URLs. Includes functions for parsing, normalizing protocols, extracting domains, and constructing clean URLs. Domain and public-suffix extraction is delegated to the 'pslr' package, which implements the Public Suffix List from <https://publicsuffix.org>. Punycode and IDNA encoding is handled by the 'punycoder' package.

Version: 3.0.1
Depends: R (≥ 4.0.0)
Imports: utils, stringi, punycoder (≥ 1.2.1), pslr (≥ 1.1.1)
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, withr, pkgdown, oysteR, rosv, jsonlite
Published: 2026-09-09
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.rurl
Author: Bart Turczynski ORCID iD [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Bart Turczynski <bartek at turczynski.pl>
BugReports: https://gitlab.com/bart-turczynski/rurl/-/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://bart-turczynski.gitlab.io/rurl/, https://gitlab.com/bart-turczynski/rurl, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rurl
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Citation: rurl citation info
Materials: NEWS
CRAN checks: rurl results

Documentation:

Reference manual: rurl.html , rurl.pdf
Vignettes: Getting Started with rurl (source, R code)
Standard-conformant parsing with url_standard (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: rurl_3.0.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: rurl_1.2.0.zip, r-release: rurl_1.2.0.zip, r-oldrel: rurl_1.2.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): rurl_1.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): rurl_1.2.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): rurl_3.0.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): rurl_1.2.0.tgz
Old sources: rurl archive

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