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webignition/url
===============

A PSR-7 UriInterface implementation. A normalizer for applying sixteen lossy and lossless normalizations.

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URL
===

[](#url)

A PSR-7 `UriInterface` for modelling a URL and accessing/modifying components.

A `Normalizer` for applying a range of semantically-lossless, potentially-lossless or lossy normalizations, most commonly for comparison.

Replaced!
---------

[](#replaced)

This package has been replaced by `webiginition/uri`. You should avoid using this in new projects, and migrate existing projects to the replacement.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP 7.2.0 or greater
- [composer](https://getcomposer.org/)

Upgrading from 2.x to 3.0
-------------------------

[](#upgrading-from-2x-to-30)

3.0 is by no means backwards-compatible with 2.x. Read the [upgrade notes](https://github.com/webignition/url/blob/master/UPGRADE-3.0.md).

Documentation
-------------

[](#documentation)

- [Documentation home](https://url.webignition.net/en/latest/)
- [Overview](https://url.webignition.net/en/latest/overview.html)
- [Requirements and installation](https://url.webignition.net/en/latest/requirements-and-installation.html)
- Usage
    - [Url Model](https://url.webignition.net/en/latest/url.html)
    - [Normalizer](https://url.webignition.net/en/latest/normalizer.html)
- Normalization details
    - [Applying multiple normalizations](https://url.webignition.net/en/latest/applying-multiple-normalizations.html)
    - [Semantically-lossless normalizations](https://url.webignition.net/en/latest/semantically-lossless-normalizations.html)
    - [Potentially-lossy normalizations](https://url.webignition.net/en/latest/potentially-lossy-normalizations.html)
    - [Lossy normalizations](https://url.webignition.net/en/latest/lossy-normalizations.html)

###  Health Score

42

—

FairBetter than 90% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity41

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community23

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity71

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 72.2% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~50 days

Recently: every ~67 days

Total

47

Last Release

2716d ago

Major Versions

1.9.19 → 2.02018-03-09

1.9.x-dev → 2.12018-05-10

2.2 → 3.02018-12-10

PHP version history (3 changes)1.0PHP >=5.3.0

1.9.15PHP >=5.6.0

3.0PHP >=7.2

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/278be37d1b614ef0c40b22b777663e545a1f6d69dd4f908888cbb557ad7e608f?d=identicon)[webignition](/maintainers/webignition)

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Top Contributors

[![webignition](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/76546?v=4)](https://github.com/webignition "webignition (13 commits)")[![sebastiankalwa](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8233667?v=4)](https://github.com/sebastiankalwa "sebastiankalwa (2 commits)")[![Firehed](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/354842?v=4)](https://github.com/Firehed "Firehed (1 commits)")[![parisholley](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/399289?v=4)](https://github.com/parisholley "parisholley (1 commits)")[![TiGR](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/281226?v=4)](https://github.com/TiGR "TiGR (1 commits)")

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Tags

psr-7urlurinormalizernormalizenormalisernormalise

###  Code Quality

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