gpurl

gpurl is small shell utility to extract parts from a URL. It uses go standard library URL parser to parse URLs. gpurl is written as a UNIX cli tool, you can pass the URLs as arguments separated by space or piped into stdin

Installing

Get it with go get

go get github.com/dbalan/gpurl

This will create the gpurl executable under your $GOPATH/bin directory.

Usage

gpurl extracts parts from a url. It uses parser from go standard library.
Urls can be passed as arguments or piped via stdin

Usage:
  gpurl [flags] [urls]

Flags:
  -e, --empty-error   error if extracted part is empty
  -h, --help          help for gpurl
  -p, --part string   part of the url to extract, could be host, scheme, path (default "host")

Example

% gpurl -p host http://dbalan.in/hello
dbalan.in
% gpurl -p path http://dbalan.in/hello
/hello

% echo http://dbalan.in/hello | gpurl -p path -e
/hello