xurls ☆

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Description:
Extract urls from text

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 2.6.0@0 | Tracked Since: Oct 10, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: cli url extraction text-processing go

Install: brew install xurls

About:
xurls is a command-line utility that extracts URLs from plain text input. It scans text from standard input or files and identifies both strict patterns like https://example.com and relaxed patterns like example.com. The tool is particularly useful for processing logs, documents, or any text where URLs need to be isolated automatically.

Key Features:

Supports both strict (scheme-required) and relaxed (scheme-optional) matching modes
Efficient Go-based implementation for fast processing of large text volumes
Handles common URL formats including HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and mailto links
Simple CLI interface that pipes seamlessly with other Unix tools
Zero dependencies for easy installation and deployment

Use Cases:

Extracting all links from server logs or application output for analysis
Harvesting URLs from documents or web pages for bookmarking or archiving
Parsing text-based data files to isolate web references for ETL pipelines
Quickly finding URLs in terminal output during debugging or security audits

Alternatives:

grep – Uses regex patterns but requires manual expression crafting and lacks URL-specific parsing
urlview – Interactive link selector for terminal, focuses on UI selection rather than batch extraction

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Oct 10, 2025 7:24pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	59a629cf