A simple plugin for extracting information from url entered by user (Something like what facebook does). This gem is built on top of opengraph gem created by michael bleigh.

This gem encrypt the url id and provide better security from accessing web pages.

A delightfully simple way to make your urls friendly to end users, without muddying up the backend.

Gem for shortening URLs

URL Shortening is a simple Rails gem that shortens URL

By using this gem we can able to shorten a URL and also able to expand the Short URLs.

Simple solution (2 methods) to sign URLs and verify the generated URLs. Use HAMC/SHA1 for signing by default but can be configured.

command line gem to check the http status of a list of urls

Speed testing for target http url (api)

Get the title from URL.

Change URLs in your css to rails helper_methods

Tokenize url by variety of providers.

Limelight token provider for url_tokenizer gem.

Client library for url2png

An API Client for Url Tracking built on top of tiny_client

Reads in plain text files with one URL per line and outputs a list of unique URLs by domain

Format, Verify & Follow URL redirects with detailed reports. (Ex => url: 'blackwellford.com/staff', verified_url: 'https://www.blackwellford.com', response_code:'200', url_redirected: true, url_sts: 'Valid', url_path: '/staff'). Following url redirects can sometimes take a few minutes and often creates various exceptions. UrlVerifier is built with exceptional error handling, reformatting, and optional time limits you can set; default is set to 60 sec limit, but typically only takes 5-10 seconds per url. UrlVerifier has been developed and improved upon for several years in an enterprise level app and is now available as an open source gem. It is perfect for high-volume, yet smooth, uninterrupted url formatting and verification.

Gem for URLVoid API.

Add, open, and remove URL shortcuts per directory.

URM is Ubuntu Release Manager (urm). It manages Ubuntu releases and switch between them without rebooting PC or using virtual machine.