diff --git a/providers/all.go b/providers/all.go
index 412b4bf..a0c8a0e 100644
--- a/providers/all.go
+++ b/providers/all.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package providers
 
 import "git.tebibyte.media/sashakoshka/step"
 import fpos       "git.tebibyte.media/sashakoshka/step/providers/os"
+import fpurl      "git.tebibyte.media/sashakoshka/step/providers/url"
 import fpsprig    "git.tebibyte.media/sashakoshka/step/providers/sprig"
 import fpmarkdown "git.tebibyte.media/sashakoshka/step/providers/markdown"
 
@@ -9,6 +10,7 @@ import fpmarkdown "git.tebibyte.media/sashakoshka/step/providers/markdown"
 func All () []step.FuncProvider {
 	return []step.FuncProvider {
 		new(fpos.Provider),
+		new(fpurl.Provider),
 		new(fpsprig.Provider),
 		fpmarkdown.Default(),
 	}
diff --git a/providers/url/url.go b/providers/url/url.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e1b617d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/providers/url/url.go
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+package url
+
+import "net/url"
+import "html/template"
+import "git.tebibyte.media/sashakoshka/step"
+
+var _ step.FuncProvider = new(Provider)
+
+// Provider provides URL functions.
+type Provider struct {
+	
+}
+
+// FuncMap fulfills the step.FuncProvider interface.
+func (this *Provider) FuncMap () template.FuncMap {
+	return template.FuncMap {
+		"parseQuery": funcParseQuery,
+	}
+}
+
+func funcParseQuery (query string) url.Values {
+	// wrapped here because the query might contain all sorts of nonsense,
+	// and returning an error in a template function causes everything to
+	// stop rather ungracefully
+	values, err := url.ParseQuery(query)
+	if err != nil {
+		values = make(url.Values)
+	}
+	return values
+}