---
title: "Parse, validate and normalize URLs."
method: POST
path: "/api/v1/url"
tags: ["Encoders & Decoders"]
---

# Parse, validate and normalize URLs.

`POST /api/v1/url`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://programmes.net`
- URL: `https://programmes.net/api/v1/url`
- Auth: none declared

URL Encoder & Decoder. Operations: `parse` — Break a URL into its component parts. `validate` — Validate a URL and run basic security/heuristic checks. `normalize` — Normalize a URL (drop default ports, sort query params, strip trailing slash).

## Request body

- union
  - UrlParse: Break a URL into its component parts.
    - `operation` 'parse', required
    - `input` string: The URL to parse.
    - `options` object
  - UrlValidate: Validate a URL and run basic security/heuristic checks.
    - `operation` 'validate', required
    - `input` string: The URL to validate.
    - `options` object
  - UrlNormalize: Normalize a URL (drop default ports, sort query params, strip trailing slash).
    - `operation` 'normalize', required
    - `input` string: The URL to normalize.
    - `options` object

## Response `200`

The operation ran.

- object
  - `ok` unknown, required
  - `tool` 'url', required
  - `operation` 'parse' | 'validate' | 'normalize', required
  - `result` unknown, required

## Other responses

- `400`: The request is not valid (https://programmes.net/api#invalid-request); The tool has no such operation (https://programmes.net/api#unknown-operation)
- `404`: No such tool (https://programmes.net/api#unknown-tool)
- `413`: The request or its input is too large (https://programmes.net/api#content-too-large)
- `415`: The body must be JSON (https://programmes.net/api#unsupported-media-type)
- `422`: An option is missing, of the wrong type or out of range (https://programmes.net/api#invalid-options); This call needs more CPU than one API call may use (https://programmes.net/api#refused); The operation could not process the input (https://programmes.net/api#tool-error)
- `429`: Too many requests (https://programmes.net/api#rate-limited)
- `500`: Internal error (https://programmes.net/api#internal-error)

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/programmes/apis/programmes-net-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/programmes/apis/programmes-net-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/programmes/apis/programmes-net-api/revisions/aa939784a2e6?raw)