Urban News finds the latest research articles from the Kinder Institute for Urban Issues. on urban issues affecting Houston and the state of Texas.

Current Urgent Care wait times in Massachusetts based on location

Urifetch allows you to fetch data from any URL using pattern matching. The library allows for dynamically adding match handlers as well as build your own strategies.

Library for validating urls in Rails

A client for using the UrlCategorise API in Ruby. Built from their api documentation. This is an unofficial project.

Command line url-encode/decode helper. The simplest way to URL encode / decode from STDIN.

Coerce and normalize user inputted URLs

Allows SEO Friendly urls for search pages to be built easily. Intended to be used with Rails.

Tokenize url by variety of providers.

Limelight token provider for url_tokenizer gem.

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.

A fast JSON serializer / deserializer for Ruby with RapidJSON.

A RapidJSON-based JavaScript object generator for Ruby.

Randomize UserAgents for web crawling

Pathname for the user-choices command-line argument parser allows choices to be automatically converted to Pathname objects.

UserEngage (https://userengage.com) - Keep things simple with a single platform for all your messaging and relationships with customers.

User component for Rails applications.

Simple wrapper for the Userstack API https://userstack.com

Dynamic user stylesheets