Seems like an excellent use case for trurl [1], a tool built on curls url parsing functions (which can presumably handle any weird url format you throw at it),

Seems like an excellent use case for trurl [1], a tool built on curls url parsing functions (which can presumably handle any weird url format you throw at it), though I'm not sure how well packaged/available it is. [1]: https://github.com/curl/trurl https://github.com/curl/trurl