vapor-docs/3.0/docs/url-encoded-form/getting-started.md

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# Getting Started with URL-Encoded Form
URL-Encoded Form ([vapor/url-encoded-form](https://github.com/vapor/url-encoded-form)) is a small package that helps you parse and serialize `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` data. URL-encoded forms are a widely-supported encoding on the web. It's most often used for serializing web forms sent via POST requests.
The URL-Encoded Form package makes it easy to use this encoding by integrating directly with `Codable`.
## Vapor
This package is included with Vapor and exported by default. You will have access to all `URLEncodedForm` APIs when you import `Vapor`.
```swift
import Vapor
```
## Standalone
The URL-Encoded Form package is lightweight, pure-Swift, and has very few dependencies. This means it can be used to work with `form-urlencoded` data for any Swift project—even one not using Vapor.
To include it in your package, add the following to your `Package.swift` file.
```swift
// swift-tools-version:4.0
import PackageDescription
let package = Package(
name: "Project",
dependencies: [
...
.package(url: "https://github.com/vapor/url-encoded-form.git", from: "1.0.0"),
],
targets: [
.target(name: "Project", dependencies: ["URLEncodedForm", ... ])
]
)
```
Use `import URLEncodedForm` to access the APIs.
!!! warning
Some of this guide may contain Vapor-specific APIs, however most of it should be applicable to the URL-Encoded Form package in general.
Visit the [API Docs](https://api.vapor.codes/url-encoded-form/latest/URLEncodedForm/index.html) for specific API info.