NEWS.md

In urlexplorer: Structural Analysis and Pattern Discovery in URL Datasets

urlexplorer 0.1.0

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

urlexplorer documentation built on Aug. 8, 2025, 7:29 p.m.