Faup stands for Finally An Url Parser and is a library and command line tool to parse URLs and normalize fields with two constraints:

1. Work with real-life urls (resilient to badly formated ones)
2. Be fast: no allocation for string parsing and read characters only once

• Webpage: http://stricaud.github.io/faup/
• Source: https://github.com/stricaud/faup
• Issues: https://github.com/stricaud/faup/issues
• Mailing List: [email protected]

Documentation

• Command Line Tool

• Library API documentation

• Frequently Asked Questions

Quick Start

What is provided?

• A static library you can embed in your software (faup_static)
• A dynamic library you can get along with (faupl)
• A command line tool you can use to extract various parts of a url (faup)

Why Yet Another URL Extraction Library?

Because they all suck. Find a library that can extract, say, a TLD even if you have an IP address, or http://localhost, or anything that may confuse your regex so much that you end up with an unmaintainable one.

Command line usage

Simply pipe or give your url as a parameter:

$ echo "www.github.com" |faup -p
scheme,credential,subdomain,domain,host,tld,port,resource_path,query_string,fragment
,,www,github.com,www.github.com,com,,,,

$ faup www.github.com
,,www,github.com,www.github.com,com,,,,

If that url is a file, multiple values will be unpacked:

$ cat urls.txt 
https://foo:[email protected]
localhost
www.mozilla.org:80/index.php

$ faup -p urls.txt 
scheme,credential,subdomain,domain,domain_without_tld,host,tld,port,resource_path,query_string,fragment
https,foo:bar,,example.com,example,example.com,com,,,,
,,,localhost,localhost,localhost,,,,,
,,www,mozilla.org,mozilla,www.mozilla.org,org,80,/index.php,,

Extract only the TLD field

Faup uses the Mozilla list to extract TLDs of level greater than one. Can handle exceptions, etc.

$ faup -f tld slashdot.org
org

$ faup -f tld www.bbc.co.uk
co.uk

Json output, high level TLDs

The Json output can be called like this:

$ faup -o json www.takatoukiter.foobar.yokohama.jp
{
	"scheme": "",
	"credential": "",
	"subdomain": "www",
	"domain": "takatoukiter.foobar.yokohama.jp",
	"domain_without_tld": "takatoukiter",
	"host": "www.takatoukiter.foobar.yokohama.jp",
	"tld": "foobar.yokohama.jp",
	"port": "",
	"resource_path": "",
	"query_string": "",
	"fragment": ""
}

Building faup

To get and build faup, you need cmake. As cmake doesn't allow to build the binary in the source directory, you have to create a build directory.

git clone git://github.com/stricaud/faup.git
cd faup
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. && make
sudo make install

LUA support

Faup can be compiled without LUA support. In that case, CMake will output the following line

-- Could NOT find Lua51 (missing:  LUA_INCLUDE_DIR) 

If you want to add LUA functionnality you need to install lua development headers prior to the previous building steps.

For example, on Redhat systems:

# yum -y install lua lua-devel

CMake 2.8 for Redhat/CentOS 6.x

The following error may appears if you have an outdated version of CMake (just like Redhat and CentOS systems):

CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:1 (cmake_minimum_required):
  CMake 2.8 or higher is required.  You are running version 2.6.4

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

To manually install CMake 2.8 on Redhat/CentOS systems use the sources and follow those instructions:

# Install dependencies
yum install ncurses-devel gcc gcc-c++ make

# Get the sources
cd /usr/local/
wget http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/cmake-2.8.12.2.tar.gz
tar xzf cmake-2.8.12.2.tar.gz
cd cmake-2.8.12.2

# Compile and install the sources
./configure
make
make install

# clean the env
cd /usr/local
rm -rf cmake-2.8.12.2 cmake-2.8.12.2.tar.gz

# adding cmake to the PATH 
echo "PATH=/usr/local/bin/:\$PATH" > /etc/profile.d/cmake28.sh 
source /etc/profile

FAQ

Why do I receive the error “libfaupl.so.1: cannot open shared object file” when trying to run faup?

If you get a shared library loading error similar to the following when trying to run faup, its probably due to your platform doesn't include the /usr/local/lib shared library directory by default (ex: Ubuntu/Debian) or the directory where faup has its shared library installed:

$ faup
faup: error while loading shared libraries: libfaupl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or director

A good way to see which shared libraries are loaded by faup is by using the ldd command:

$ ldd /usr/local/bin/faup 
	linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff89735000)
	libfaupl.so.1 => not found
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f55a6082000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f55a641a000)

To update the faup shared library path, you can use the ldconfig command. For example if faup libraries are installed in /usr/local/lib, you can add the path as follows:

$ echo '/usr/local/lib' | sudo tee -a /etc/ld.so.conf.d/faup.conf
$ ldconfig
$ ldd /usr/local/bin/faup 
	linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff550d5000)
	libfaupl.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libfaupl.so.1 (0x00007f41f9102000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f41f8d78000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f41f9317000)