People paste profile links from chats, browsers, and share sheets. Those links can carry query parameters that are irrelevant to identifying the account. A small parser should extract a handle from the profile path, reject unrelated hosts, and leave the original URL out of the lookup key. I built TikStories to accept a public TikTok handle or profile URL and show currently active public Stories. The example below is a standalone parsing exercise, not a copy of the site's internal code. It d...