squeeze enables to extract rich information from any text (raw, JSON, HTML, YAML, etc).

Currently supported:

• Codetags (as defined per PEP 350)
• URIs/URLs/URNs (as defined per RFC 3986)

See integrations for some practical uses. Continue reading for the install and getting started instructions.

This method requires the Rust toolchain to be installed on your machine.

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/aymericbeaumet/squeeze.git /tmp/squeeze
cargo install --path=/tmp/squeeze/squeeze-cli

Let's start by extracting a URL, squeeze expects the text to be searched on its standard input, with the results being placed on its standard output:

echo 'lorem https://github.com ipsum' | squeeze -1 --url

https://github.com

The -1 flag allows to immediately abort after one result has been found.

If you want to print all the URLs, just omit the -1 flag:

squeeze --url << EOF
this a domain: github.com, but this is a url: https://aymericbeaumet.com
this is some markdown: [link](https://wikipedia.com)
EOF

https://aymericbeaumet.com
https://wikipedia.com

It is also possible to extract other types of information, like codetags (TODO:, FIXME:, etc). The usage remains very similar:

squeeze --codetag=todo << EOF
// TODO: implement the main function
fn main {}
EOF

TODO: implement the main function

Note that for convenience some aliases are defined. In this case, you can use --todo instead of --codetag=todo. In the same vein, --url is an alias to limit the search to specific URI schemes.

It is possible to enable several finders at the same time, they will be run sequentially for each line:

squeeze --uri=http,https --codetag=todo,fixme << EOF
// TODO: update with a better example
// FIXME: all of https://github.com/aymericbeaumet/squeeze/issues
// Some random comment to be ignored
ftp://localhost
http://localhost
EOF

TODO: update with a better example
FIXME: all of https://github.com/aymericbeaumet/squeeze/issues
https://github.com/aymericbeaumet/squeeze/issues
http://localhost

This getting started should give you an overview of what's possible with squeeze. Have a look at all the possibilities with squeeze --help.

Integrations with some popular tools.

Press Enter in visual mode to extract the first URL from the current selection and open it:

" ~/.vimrc
vnoremap <silent> <CR> :<C-U>'<,'>w !squeeze -1 --url --open<CR><CR>

Press Enter in copy mode to extract the first URL from the current selection and open it:

# ~/.tmux.conf
bind -T copy-mode-vi enter send -X copy-pipe-and-cancel "squeeze -1 --url --open"

Define a urls function to list all the URLs in your shell history:

# ~/.bashrc ~/.zshrc
urls() { fc -rl 1 | squeeze --url | sort -u; }

echo 'http://localhost' | cargo run -- --url

cargo test
watchexec --clear --restart 'cargo test'