balazsbotond/urlcat

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1871 stars · 61 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

urlcat is a tiny JavaScript/TypeScript library for building URLs conveniently and correctly, handling path joining, query string construction, and escaping automatically. It prevents common mistakes like duplicate slashes and unencoded parameters when constructing request URLs.

Use cases

• build URLs for HTTP API calls with dynamic path and query parameters
• concatenate base URLs and paths without duplicate slashes
• construct query strings with proper URL encoding
• build request URLs in TypeScript with type safety
• replace error-prone template literal URL construction

When to choose

• you frequently build API request URLs in JavaScript or TypeScript
• you want a tiny, dependency-light library with a simple API
• you need automatic escaping and slash handling in URL construction

When to avoid

• you only need to parse existing URLs rather than build them
• your runtime already provides the WHATWG URL API and you prefer zero dependencies
• you need complex URL manipulation like rewriting or normalization

Facets

library · maturity stable

http-client developer-tools web-development developer-tools apis browser cross-platform url-builder querystring typescript url-concatenation nodejs

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