1 pointby interweb_tube6 hours ago1 comment
  • interweb_tube6 hours ago
    Hello internet,

    Excited to share https://url.computer/, a simple client-side developer tool that helps parse and edit URLs and build cURL queries.

    It's meant to be a lightweight Postman alternative that's 100% private and client side, and makes both editing and saving URLs easy.

    OMG it's got features & stuff:

    * Easily parse and live-edit URLs.

    * Build cURL queries with headers, JSON body, flags, whatever.

    * 100% client side, no accounts, nothing is sent to any server.

    * Local app state is saved to the URL #fragment creating shareable links.

    * Save states to local storage.

    * Import a URL directly by pasting it in: https://url.computer/google.com

    * Automatically clean up URL query args: url.computer/clean/cool-thing-i-found.com?oh-no-a-tracking-id=omgwtf

    * It's a nice shade of blue.

    I made this to make my life easier working on long, complex, and usually ephemeral dev URLs.

    Use cases:

    * Edit or replace a single query or piece of a long URL that's annoying to parse yourself.

    * Save a dev or staging URL you're working on and need to keep reloading.

    * Save a sample API query, including the cURL stuff to ping it, and share it with a coworker.

    * Paste an inscrutable url somewhere for your own reasons: https://url.computer/#N4IgrgTgNiBcIAsAuSAOBnWB6LSCmAdngIYRIL...

    * Enjoy the nice shade of blue & the fact that .computer is a valid TLD.

    Feedback, issues, bugs, and stuff like that go here: https://github.com/rvilgalys/url.computer

    Hope y'all find it useful!