NEWS

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urlexplorer 0.1.0 (2025-07-14)

Major improvements

• Performance optimization: Dramatically improved performance across all functions

  • count_param_names() now processes 500,000+ queries per second (1000x+ speedup)
  • split_query() completely rewritten with efficient vectorized operations
  • extract_path_segment() optimized with direct string operations
  • All extract functions now use direct regex patterns instead of split operations

• Dependency reduction: Removed external dependencies for better reliability

  • Removed xml2 package dependency
  • Removed urltools package dependency
  • Removed purrr package dependency
  • Removed tidyselect package dependency
  • All URL parsing now uses efficient stringr-based implementations

• Code quality improvements:

  • Consistent regex patterns shared across functions
  • Standardized documentation and examples
  • Improved error handling and edge cases
  • All functions follow consistent input/output patterns

• R version update: Updated minimum R version to 4.1.0 to support native pipe |> and function shorthand \() syntax

Bug fixes

• Fixed userinfo extraction in URLs containing @ symbols in paths
• Improved handling of malformed URLs and edge cases
• Fixed variable binding issues in split_url() function

Package structure

• Added comprehensive performance tests to prevent regressions
• Improved package documentation and examples
• Added .Rbuildignore entries for development files