short_url VS purl

Compare short_url vs purl and see what are their differences.

short_url

Python implementation for generating Tiny URL- and bit.ly-like URLs. (by Alir3z4)

purl

A simple, immutable URL class with a clean API for interrogation and manipulation. (by codeinthehole)
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short_url purl
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over 1 year ago 9 months ago
Python Python
MIT License MIT License
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short_url

Posts with mentions or reviews of short_url. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning short_url yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

purl

Posts with mentions or reviews of purl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-12.
  • Purl: A Simple Tool for Text Processing
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Apr 2024
    I was thinking of “Persistent uniform resource locator” but then realised I think you are referring to the python library https://github.com/codeinthehole/purl (I get your argument although I quite like this new project. It’s closer to “Perl” in my mind. But then I am nearly 50..)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing short_url and purl you can also consider the following projects:

furl - 🌐 URL parsing and manipulation made easy.

pyshorteners - :electric_plug: Generating short urls with python has never been easier

webargs - A friendly library for parsing HTTP request arguments, with built-in support for popular web frameworks, including Flask, Django, Bottle, Tornado, Pyramid, webapp2, Falcon, and aiohttp.

courlan - Clean, filter and sample URLs to optimize data collection – includes spam, content type and language filters

url_cleaner - A package for removing tracing parameters from URLs. This package supports automatically updating filtering rules from Adguard.

yarl - Yet another URL library