[spiffyk]

> url "$my_url" parses a URL into its parts. I use this about once a month to pull data out of a URL, often because I don’t want to click a nasty tracking link.

This sounds pretty useful!

Coincidentally, I have recently learned that Daniel Stenberg et al (of cURL fame) wrote trurl[1], a libcurl-based CLI tool for URL parsing. Its `--json` option seems to yield similar results as TFA's url, if slightly less concise because of the JSON encoding. The advantage is that recent releases of common Linux distros seem to include trurl in their repos[2].

[1]: https://curl.se/trurl/

[2]: https://pkgs.org/search/?q=trurl