# gruns/furl

🌐 The easiest way to parse and modify URLs in Python.

Repository: https://github.com/gruns/furl
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/furl
Language: Python
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: python, python3, url, urls, url-parsing, manipulating-urls, url-manipulation, library
Last push: 2026-02-22T04:48:44+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 53/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 68, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5404, "days_push": 192, "days_rel": 542, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2810, forks 164 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:23.646559+00:00)

## What it is
furl is a small Python library that makes parsing and modifying URLs easy, offering a fluent API over the tedious standard urllib/urlparse modules. It handles paths, query arguments, fragments, and encoding (including Unicode/IDN) automatically.

## Use cases
- parse urls in python
- add or remove query parameters from a url
- modify url path segments programmatically
- handle url encoding and unicode domains
- parse query arguments from a url fragment
- build urls cleanly instead of string concatenation

## When to choose
- you need to parse, build, or mutate URLs in Python with clean, chainable code
- you want automatic handling of encoding, Unicode, and IDN hosts
- you find urllib.parse too low-level and tedious for common URL operations

## When to avoid
- you only need to fetch or download content from a URL rather than manipulate it
- you need strict RFC 3986 validation or normalization of malformed URLs
- you're working outside Python

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: parser, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, developer-tools, apis
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: url-parsing, url-manipulation, query-strings, url-encoding, public-domain

## Member repositories
- gruns/furl (main) score 53

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:23.646559+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T08:13:33.360166+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/gruns/furl (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:23.646559+00:00, sha 22450e068770)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/furl/json (fetched 2026-08-29T09:54:06.495703+00:00, sha 87590944ed4d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.