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. The package includes a processed copy of the Public Suffix List from <https://publicsuffix.org> for domain extraction.

Version: 1.2.0
Depends: R (≥ 3.5)
Imports: utils, curl, stringi, punycoder (≥ 1.0.0)
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, withr
Published: 2026-06-19
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.rurl (may not be active yet)
Author: Bart Turczynski [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Bart Turczynski <bartek+rurl at turczynski.pl>
BugReports: https://github.com/bart-turczynski/rurl/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/bart-turczynski/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)

Downloads:

Package source: rurl_1.2.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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