Url.computer – client side URL parser and cURL query builder

1 pointsposted 6 hours ago
by interweb_tube

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interweb_tube

6 hours ago

Hello internet,

Excited to share https://url.computer/, a simple client-side developer tool that helps parse and edit URLs and build cURL queries.

It's meant to be a lightweight Postman alternative that's 100% private and client side, and makes both editing and saving URLs easy.

OMG it's got features & stuff:

* Easily parse and live-edit URLs.

* Build cURL queries with headers, JSON body, flags, whatever.

* 100% client side, no accounts, nothing is sent to any server.

* Local app state is saved to the URL #fragment creating shareable links.

* Save states to local storage.

* Import a URL directly by pasting it in: https://url.computer/google.com

* Automatically clean up URL query args: url.computer/clean/cool-thing-i-found.com?oh-no-a-tracking-id=omgwtf

* It's a nice shade of blue.

I made this to make my life easier working on long, complex, and usually ephemeral dev URLs.

Use cases:

* Edit or replace a single query or piece of a long URL that's annoying to parse yourself.

* Save a dev or staging URL you're working on and need to keep reloading.

* Save a sample API query, including the cURL stuff to ping it, and share it with a coworker.

* Paste an inscrutable url somewhere for your own reasons: https://url.computer/#N4IgrgTgNiBcIAsAuSAOBnWB6LSCmAdngIYRIL...

* Enjoy the nice shade of blue & the fact that .computer is a valid TLD.

Feedback, issues, bugs, and stuff like that go here: https://github.com/rvilgalys/url.computer

Hope y'all find it useful!