Fuzzyurl

Non-strict parsing, composition, and wildcard matching of URLs in Ruby.

Introduction

Fuzzyurl provides two related functions: non-strict parsing of URLs or URL-like strings into their component pieces (protocol, username, password, hostname, port, path, query, and fragment), and fuzzy matching of URLs and URL patterns.

Specifically, URLs that look like this:

[protocol ://] [username [: password] @] [hostname] [: port] [/ path] [? query] [# fragment]

Fuzzyurls can be constructed using some or all of the above fields, optionally replacing some or all of those fields with a * wildcard if you wish to use the Fuzzyurl as a URL mask.

Installation

Put the following in your Gemfile:

gem 'fuzzyurl', '~> 0.9.0'

Parsing URLs

irb> Fuzzyurl.from_string("https://api.example.com/users/123?full=true")
#=> #<Fuzzyurl:0x007ff55b914f58 @protocol="https", @username=nil, @password=nil, @hostname="api.example.com", @port=nil, @path="/users/123", @query="full=true", @fragment=nil>

Constructing URLs

irb> f = Fuzzyurl.new(hostname: "example.com", protocol: "http", port: "8080")
irb> f.to_s
#=> "http://example.com:8080"

Matching URLs

Fuzzyurl supports wildcard matching:

• * matches anything, including null.
• foo* matches foo, foobar, foo/bar, etc.
• *bar matches bar, foobar, foo/bar, etc.

Path and hostname matching allows the use of a greedier wildcard ** in addition to the naive wildcard *:

• *.example.com matches filsrv-01.corp.example.com but not example.com.
• **.example.com matches filsrv-01.corp.example.com and example.com.
• /some/path/* matches /some/path/foo/bar and /some/path/ but not /some/path
• /some/path/** matches /some/path/foo/bar and /some/path/ and /some/path

The Fuzzyurl.mask function aids in the creation of URL masks.

irb> Fuzzyurl.mask
#=> #<Fuzzyurl:0x007ff55b039578 @protocol="*", @username="*", @password="*", @hostname="*", @port="*", @path="*", @query="*", @fragment="*">

irb> Fuzzyurl.matches?(Fuzzyurl.mask, "http://example.com:8080/foo/bar")
#=> true

irb> mask = Fuzzyurl.mask(path: "/a/b/**")
irb> Fuzzyurl.matches?(mask, "https://example.com/a/b/")
#=> true
irb> Fuzzyurl.matches?(mask, "git+ssh://jen@example.com/a/b/")
#=> true
irb> Fuzzyurl.matches?(mask, "https://example.com/a/bar")
#=> false

Fuzzyurl.bestMatch, given a list of URL masks and a URL, will return the given mask which most closely matches the URL:

irb> masks = ["/foo/*", "/foo/bar", Fuzzyurl.mask]
irb> Fuzzyurl.best_match(masks, "http://example.com/foo/bar")
#=> "/foo/bar"

If you'd prefer the array index instead of the matching mask itself, use Fuzzyurl.best_match_index instead:

irb> Fuzzyurl.best_match_index(masks, "http://example.com/foo/bar")
#=> 1

Authorship and License

Fuzzyurl is copyright 2014-2015, Pete Gamache.

Fuzzyurl is released under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt.

If you got this far, you should probably follow me on Twitter. @gamache