= Public Suffix List

* http://github.com/toddsundsted/Public-Suffix-List

== Description

The Public Suffix List (http://publicsuffix.org/) is "a cross-vendor
initiative to provide an accurate list of domain name suffixes". Such
a list is necessary because "there was and remains no algorithmic
method of finding the highest level at which a domain may be
registered for a particular top-level domain (the policies differ with
each registry)...". Public Suffix List is also a small Ruby library
designed to make the Public Suffix List (http://publicsuffix.org/)
easier to use.  Public Suffix List will transparently download the
latest list of top-level domains, parse the list, and optionally cache
the parsed data.

The public API is as simple as I could make it.  Instantiating the
PublicSuffixList class downloads, parses, and caches the data.  There
are three instance methods:

[*tld*(domain)] return the top-level domain name
[*cdn*(domain)] return the canonical domain name
[*split*(domain)] split the domain name into parts

== Features

* Transparent download of the TLD data file
* Optional caching of optimized, parsed TLD data
* Tiny API

== Synopsis

  require "public_suffix_list"

  # Downloads and parses the latest data file and returns "com".
  PublicSuffixList.new.tld("foobar.com")

  # Downloads and parses the latest data file and returns "foobar.com".
  PublicSuffixList.new.cdn("foobar.com")

  # Downloads and parses the latest data file, caches it in /tmp,
  # and returns ["abc", "xyz", "co.uk"].
  PublicSuffixList.new(cache_dir: "/tmp").split("abc.xyz.co.uk")

  # Loads the cached data in /tmp if it is less than 100 seconds old,
  # downloads, parses, and caches it if it is older, and returns
  # ["test", "parliament", "uk"].
  PublicSuffixList.new(cache_dir: "/tmp", cache_expiry_period: 100).split("test.parliament.uk")

  # You don't have to instantiate PublicSuffixList every time you
  # use it, of course...
  p = PublicSuffixList.new
  p.split("fee.fi.fo.com") # => ["fee.fi", "fo", "com"]
  p.cdn("fee.fi.fo.com")   # => "fo.com", "cdn" is "canonical domain name"
  p.tld("fee.fi.fo.com")   # => "com", "tld" is "top-level domain"

  # You can even use other data files, both local and remote
  # (as long as they conform to the Public Suffix List file format).
  PublicSuffixList.new(url: "spec/test.dat")

== Requirements

None that I am aware of.

== Install

Install the gem directly:

  gem install public-suffix-list

Or add it to your Gemfile and use bundler:

  gem 'public-suffix-list', '~> 0.1.4'

== License

Copyright (c) 2010-2016 Todd Sundsted

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