Anyone looking for a fun small rust project? Create a crate for cleaning urls, based on the ClearUrls project (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/rust@lemmy.ml

6 comments fedilink hide all child comments

This would entail:

Pulling in the ClearUrls rules as a git submodule.
Reading / transforming the json there into Rust structs.
Creating a Rust crate that runs a .clean(input_url) -> String

Lemmy issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4905

top 6 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[-] dtc@masto.pt 4 points 3 months ago

@dessalines Did something similar last night. Might take a look into using ClearURLs instead: https://github.com/diogotcorreia/alt-urls-discord-bot

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Nice! Ya that could be made very multi-purpose.

[-] BB_C@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

Looks trivial and easy to automate.
I possibly would have done it if they had a test suite.
But unless I didn't look hard enough, they have no tests at all (other than linting)!

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yep, it'd be a pretty small library. I'm not sure if they generate those JSON rules from somewhere else, but either way they could be converted to defined rust objects as part of a build process.

This might be helpful: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/typify

[-] jendrik@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago

I just released a crate doing exactly that: https://crates.io/crates/clearurls

Let me know if if fits your need or you need anything else. Issues and PRs welcome.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Whoa nice! I'll check it out and see how we can integrate it into lemmy.

this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2024

25 points (90.3% liked)

Rust Programming

7734 readers

1 users here now

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

nutomic@lemmy.ml

Joe@lemmy.ml

AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml