psl

Extract Internet Domain Components Using the Public Suffix List

Description

The ‘Public Suffix List’ (https://publicsuffix.org/) is a collection of top-level domains (‘TLDs’) which include global top-level domainsa (‘gTLDs’) such as ‘.com’ and ‘.net’; country top-level domains (‘ccTLDs’) such as ‘.de’ and ‘.cn’; and, brand top-level domains such as ‘.apple’ and ‘.google’. Tools are provided to extract internet domain components using the public suffix list base data.

• libpsl: https://github.com/rockdaboot/libpsl
• Public Suffix List: https://publicsuffix.org/

What’s Inside The Tin

The following functions are implemented:

• apex_domain: Return the apex/top-private domain from a vector of domains
• is_public_suffix: Test whether a domain is a public suffix
• public_suffix: Return the public suffix from a vector of domains
• suffix_extract: Separate a domain into component parts
• suffix_extract2: Separate a domain into component parts (urltools compatible output)

PRE-Installation

You need a recent libpsl.

• macOS: brew install libpsl libicu4c && brew link icu4c --force
• Debian/Ubuntu-ish: Many repos have old versions so it’s highly suggested that you build from source and ensure the library & header files are accessible
• Windows: Just use urltools::suffix_extract() until winlibs are available for psl

Installation

remotes::install_github("hrbrmstr/psl")

Usage

library(psl)
library(tidyverse)

# current verison
packageVersion("psl")
## [1] '0.1.1'

doms <- c(
  "", "com", "example.com", "www.example.com",
  ".com", ".example", ".example.com", ".example.example", "example",
  "example.example", "b.example.example", "a.b.example.example",
  "biz", "domain.biz", "b.domain.biz", "a.b.domain.biz", "com",
  "example.com", "b.example.com", "a.b.example.com", "uk.com",
  "example.uk.com", "b.example.uk.com", "a.b.example.uk.com", "test.ac",
  "cy", "c.cy", "b.c.cy", "a.b.c.cy", "jp", "test.jp", "www.test.jp",
  "ac.jp", "test.ac.jp", "www.test.ac.jp", "kyoto.jp", "test.kyoto.jp",
  "ide.kyoto.jp", "b.ide.kyoto.jp", "a.b.ide.kyoto.jp", "c.kobe.jp",
  "b.c.kobe.jp", "a.b.c.kobe.jp", "city.kobe.jp", "www.city.kobe.jp",
  "ck", "test.ck", "b.test.ck", "a.b.test.ck", "www.ck", "www.www.ck",
  "us", "test.us", "www.test.us", "ak.us", "test.ak.us", "www.test.ak.us",
  "k12.ak.us", "test.k12.ak.us", "www.test.k12.ak.us"
)

apex_domain(doms)
##  [1] NA                NA                "example.com"     "example.com"     NA                NA               
##  [7] NA                NA                NA                "example.example" "example.example" "example.example"
## [13] NA                "domain.biz"      "domain.biz"      "domain.biz"      NA                "example.com"    
## [19] "example.com"     "example.com"     NA                "example.uk.com"  "example.uk.com"  "example.uk.com" 
## [25] "test.ac"         NA                "c.cy"            "c.cy"            "c.cy"            NA               
## [31] "test.jp"         "test.jp"         NA                "test.ac.jp"      "test.ac.jp"      NA               
## [37] "test.kyoto.jp"   NA                "b.ide.kyoto.jp"  "b.ide.kyoto.jp"  NA                "b.c.kobe.jp"    
## [43] "b.c.kobe.jp"     "city.kobe.jp"    "city.kobe.jp"    NA                NA                "b.test.ck"      
## [49] "b.test.ck"       "www.ck"          "www.ck"          NA                "test.us"         "test.us"        
## [55] NA                "test.ak.us"      "test.ak.us"      NA                "test.k12.ak.us"  "test.k12.ak.us"

public_suffix(doms)
##  [1] ""             "com"          "com"          "com"          "com"          "example"      "com"         
##  [8] "example"      "example"      "example"      "example"      "example"      "biz"          "biz"         
## [15] "biz"          "biz"          "com"          "com"          "com"          "com"          "uk.com"      
## [22] "uk.com"       "uk.com"       "uk.com"       "ac"           "cy"           "cy"           "cy"          
## [29] "cy"           "jp"           "jp"           "jp"           "ac.jp"        "ac.jp"        "ac.jp"       
## [36] "kyoto.jp"     "kyoto.jp"     "ide.kyoto.jp" "ide.kyoto.jp" "ide.kyoto.jp" "c.kobe.jp"    "c.kobe.jp"   
## [43] "c.kobe.jp"    "kobe.jp"      "kobe.jp"      "ck"           "test.ck"      "test.ck"      "test.ck"     
## [50] "ck"           "ck"           "us"           "us"           "us"           "ak.us"        "ak.us"       
## [57] "ak.us"        "k12.ak.us"    "k12.ak.us"    "k12.ak.us"

is_public_suffix(doms)
##  [1]  TRUE  TRUE FALSE FALSE  TRUE  TRUE FALSE FALSE  TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE  TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE  TRUE FALSE FALSE
## [20] FALSE  TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE  TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE  TRUE FALSE FALSE  TRUE FALSE FALSE  TRUE FALSE  TRUE
## [39] FALSE FALSE  TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE  TRUE  TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE  TRUE FALSE FALSE  TRUE FALSE FALSE
## [58]  TRUE FALSE FALSE

suffix_extract(doms)
## # A tibble: 60 × 6
##    orig               normalized         subdomain apex            domain  suffix   
##    <chr>              <chr>              <chr>     <chr>           <chr>   <chr>    
##  1 ""                 ""                  <NA>     <NA>            <NA>    ""       
##  2 "com"              "com"               <NA>     <NA>            <NA>    "com"    
##  3 "example.com"      "example.com"      ""        example.com     example "com"    
##  4 "www.example.com"  "www.example.com"  "www"     example.com     example "com"    
##  5 ".com"             ".com"              <NA>     <NA>            <NA>    "com"    
##  6 ".example"         ".example"          <NA>     <NA>            <NA>    "example"
##  7 ".example.com"     ".example.com"      <NA>     <NA>            <NA>    "com"    
##  8 ".example.example" ".example.example"  <NA>     <NA>            <NA>    "example"
##  9 "example"          "example"           <NA>     <NA>            <NA>    "example"
## 10 "example.example"  "example.example"  ""        example.example example "example"
## # … with 50 more rows

str(suffix_extract2(doms)) # urltools compatible output
## 'data.frame':    60 obs. of  4 variables:
##  $ host     : chr  "" "com" "example.com" "www.example.com" ...
##  $ subdomain: chr  NA NA "" "www" ...
##  $ domain   : chr  NA NA "example" "example" ...
##  $ suffix   : chr  "" "com" "com" "com" ...

library(microbenchmark)

microbenchmark(
  urltools = urltools::suffix_extract(doms),
  psl = psl::suffix_extract(doms), # returns more data
  psl2 = psl::suffix_extract2(doms) # returns what urltools does
) -> mb

autoplot(mb)