Changelog

recent updates to urltoolskit.org

v2.0 — 31 July 2026 — 30 → 80 tools

• 50 new tools, and two new categories: Dev / HTTP and Security / Privacy. Everything still runs client-side — nothing in this release fetches a URL.
• Press / to search. At 80 tools, browsing nine categories stopped being the fast path, so the header now has a filter with keyboard navigation.
• One registry drives everything. The megamenu, the filter index, the footer, the homepage grid, the sitemap and the new per-page "Related URL tools" block all come from tools.php, so they can no longer disagree with each other.
• Structured data on every tool page: SoftwareApplication and BreadcrumbList from the front matter, plus HowTo and FAQPage derived from the page's own "How to use" steps and FAQ entries.
• Encode / Decode (+8): Double / multi decode, HTML entities in URLs, Percent-encoding table, Unicode escapes, Deflate + Base64 URLs, Escape for code, Byte inspector, Legacy charset decoder.
• Parse / Inspect (+6): Batch URL parser, Query param diff, URL length checker, Sitemap URL lister, Path depth analyzer, URL → breadcrumbs.
• Build / Generate (+9): Query-string builder, Bulk UTM builder, Sitemap generator, hreflang generator, Pattern expander, Pagination URLs, Signed URL (HMAC), srcset builder, Batch QR codes.
• Validate / Check (+6): Encoding validator, URL regex tester, TLD checker, robots.txt tester, UTM naming linter, Canonical grouper.
• Extract / Transform (+7): HTML link audit, Markdown links, URL list diff, Bulk find / replace, Param keep / drop, Relative ↔ absolute, Redirect map.
• Dev / HTTP (new, 6): curl command parser, URL → code snippet, HTTP header parser, Cookie parser, HAR URL extractor, Link header.
• Security / Privacy (new, 5): Open-redirect scanner, Obfuscated URL decoder, Typosquat checker, Mixed-content checker, URL privacy audit.
• Preview / Share (+3): SERP snippet preview, Social card renderer, QR code reader.
• Fixes: a megamenu panel could stay visible after Escape or a second click on its trigger (a :focus-within rule outliving aria-expanded); a top-level label wrapping a single-line input collapsed side by side on narrow screens; the pagination generator now renames its parameter to match the chosen style; TLD typo suggestions weight common endings, so .cmo suggests .com rather than .cm; the obfuscation decoder reads the numeric host from the raw input, since the URL parser normalises it away before you can see it.

v1.0 — 20 May 2026 — initial release

• 30 URL tools across six mega-menu categories — Encode/Decode, Parse/Inspect, Build/Generate, Validate/Check, Extract/Transform, Preview/Share.
• Batch mode by default. Every tool that operates on a single URL also accepts a list — paste one or many, same logic per row.
• Encode / Decode (5): URL encode / decode, Base64URL, Data URI builder, Punycode / IDN, Batch URL encoder.
• Parse / Inspect (5): URL parser, Query-string editor, JWT decoder, URL diff, URL explainer.
• Build / Generate (9): URL builder, UTM builder, UTM cleaner, Slug generator, QR code from URL, mailto / tel / sms, geo / magnet / crypto, Social share links, URL → Markdown link.
• Validate / Check (5): URL validator, URL normalizer, Redirect URL decoder, IDN homograph check, Deep-link tester.
• Extract / Transform (4): URL extractor, Domain / host extractor, Sort / dedupe, Favicon URL builder.
• Preview / Share (2): OG / Twitter card meta, URL fingerprint.
• Sample URL lists in datasets.