URLify sanitize service

Based on URLify for PHP (a PHP port of URLify.js from the Django project), it provides a web service to generate URL safe strings starting from generic text.

It accepts the following parameters (via POST or GET):

string

String to be sanitized. Should be UTF-8 and percent encoded.
If empty display the current help page.

Default: <empty>

mode

Method used for sanitization. It can be:

• classic: URLify filter method is applied. Some symbols from Latin-1 block have been added to URLify map of symbols: ®, ½, ¾, ¼, ², ³, ¹, º, ª.
  The default URLify list of words to remove from URLs is ignored, that is, no word is removed from string. Multiple spaces and "/" (normal slashes, aka SOLIDUS) are converted to "-" (hyphen-minus).
• wiki: Wikipedia-like URLS: UTF-8 encoded and percent encoded
  Multiple spaces and "/" (normal slashes, aka SOLIDUS) are converted to "-" (hyphen-minus).
• auto: Try to detect chars provided in string.
  Use the classic method unless at least one non-ASCII character and non-URLify maps character is found in string

Default: auto

format

Format to be returned. It can assume the values:

• plain: Plain text.
• json: JSON string.

Default: plain

maxlength

Max length to be returned, it depends on mode.

• mode classic:it is the max lenght of the ASCII string returned
• mode wiki: it is the max length of the input string in UTF-8 characters

Default: 255

Examples