diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 544a13bb633c1..da51e85ba6cc5 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1140,6 +1140,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "unicode-general-category",
  "unicode-segmentation",
  "unicode-width",
+ "url",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/helix-core/Cargo.toml b/helix-core/Cargo.toml
index 8035333dd7424..e96e20a737d62 100644
--- a/helix-core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/helix-core/Cargo.toml
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ log = "0.4"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0"
 toml = "0.7"
+url = "2.3.1"
 
 imara-diff = "0.1.0"
 
diff --git a/helix-core/src/lib.rs b/helix-core/src/lib.rs
index 0acdb238054ce..593e75fa30cf0 100644
--- a/helix-core/src/lib.rs
+++ b/helix-core/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 pub use encoding_rs as encoding;
+pub use url;
 
 pub mod auto_pairs;
 pub mod chars;
diff --git a/helix-view/src/document.rs b/helix-view/src/document.rs
index bb61eaa6aae68..1920786a2aa34 100644
--- a/helix-view/src/document.rs
+++ b/helix-view/src/document.rs
@@ -634,7 +634,7 @@ where
 }
 
 use helix_lsp::{lsp, Client, LanguageServerName};
-use url::Url;
+use helix_core::url::Url;
 
 impl Document {
     pub fn from(