# allmarkedup/purl

[NO LONGER MAINTAINED] A JS utility for for parsing URLs and extracting information out of them.

Repository: https://github.com/allmarkedup/purl
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/purl
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2023-10-02T09:37:40+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5855, "days_push": 1066, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1840, forks 379 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:42.995763+00:00)

## What it is
Purl is a small JavaScript utility for parsing URLs and extracting attributes like protocol, host, port, path segments, and querystring parameters. It works both standalone and as a jQuery plugin, but is explicitly no longer maintained.

## Use cases
- parse a url into protocol host and path in javascript
- extract querystring parameters from a url
- get the port or host from a url string
- parse the current page url in the browser
- extract url from an anchor element href with jquery

## When to choose
- maintaining legacy code that already depends on purl
- you need a tiny standalone url parser with no build tooling

## When to avoid
- starting any new project - it is unmaintained
- you want modern WHATWG URL API or actively maintained alternatives like URI.js

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: parser, http-client
- domain: web-development, developer-tools, parsers
- platform: browser
- tags: url-parsing, querystring, jquery, uri, deprecated, nodejs, javascript

## Member repositories
- allmarkedup/purl (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:42.995763+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 2026-08-30T03:18:03.560970+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/allmarkedup/purl (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:42.995763+00:00, sha 8c5fd71ac44e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.