diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ba077a4..d567ba0 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 bin
+target
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 87add2f..754eefc 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 
 # products
-ENCODE=urlenc
-DECODE=urldec
+PRODUCT=urlenc
 
 # build and packaging
 MAIN := ./src/encode
@@ -23,7 +22,7 @@ RELEASE_BASE = $(RELEASE_TARGETS)/$(RELEASE_PRODUCT)/bin
 
 TEST_PKGS ?= encode/...
 
-.PHONY: all test encode decode install release build build_release build_formula clean
+.PHONY: all test urlenc install release build build_release build_formula clean
 
 all: build
 
@@ -32,31 +31,23 @@ PREFIX ?= /usr/local
 
 .PHONY: all encode decode
 
-all: encode decode
+all: urlenc
 
 $(TARGETS):
 	mkdir -p $(TARGETS)
 
-encode: $(BIN)/$(ENCODE)
+urlenc: $(BIN)/$(PRODUCT)
 
-$(BIN)/$(ENCODE): $(TARGETS) $(SRC)
-	go build -ldflags "-X main.mode=enc -X main.version=$(VERSION) -X main.githash=$(GITHASH)" -o $(BIN)/$(ENCODE) $(MAIN)
-
-decode: $(BIN)/$(DECODE)
-
-$(BIN)/$(DECODE): $(TARGETS) $(SRC)
-	go build -ldflags "-X main.mode=dec -X main.version=$(VERSION) -X main.githash=$(GITHASH)" -o $(BIN)/$(DECODE) $(MAIN)
+$(BIN)/$(PRODUCT): $(TARGETS) $(SRC)
+	go build -ldflags "-X main.mode=enc -X main.version=$(VERSION) -X main.githash=$(GITHASH)" -o $(BIN)/$(PRODUCT) $(MAIN)
 
 install: encode decode ## Build and install
-	install -m 0755 $(BIN)/$(ENCODE) $(BIN)/$(DECODE) $(PREFIX)/bin 
-
-$(RELEASE_BASE)/$(ENCODE): $(SRC)
-	go build -ldflags "-X main.mode=enc -X main.version=$(VERSION) -X main.githash=$(GITHASH)" -o $(RELEASE_BASE)/$(ENCODE) $(MAIN)
+	install -m 0755 $(BIN)/$(PRODUCT) $(PREFIX)/bin 
 
-$(RELEASE_BASE)/$(DECODE): $(SRC)
-	go build -ldflags "-X main.mode=dec -X main.version=$(VERSION) -X main.githash=$(GITHASH)" -o $(RELEASE_BASE)/$(DECODE) $(MAIN)
+$(RELEASE_BASE)/$(PRODUCT): $(SRC)
+	go build -ldflags "-X main.mode=enc -X main.version=$(VERSION) -X main.githash=$(GITHASH)" -o $(RELEASE_BASE)/$(PRODUCT) $(MAIN)
 
-$(RELEASE_PACKAGE): $(RELEASE_BASE)/$(ENCODE) $(RELEASE_BASE)/$(DECODE)
+$(RELEASE_PACKAGE): $(RELEASE_BASE)/$(PRODUCT)
 	(cd $(RELEASE_TARGETS) && tar -zcf $(RELEASE_ARCHIVE) $(RELEASE_PRODUCT))
 
 build_release: $(RELEASE_PACKAGE)
diff --git a/src/encode/encode.go b/src/encode/encode.go
index 5f46333..96105c8 100644
--- a/src/encode/encode.go
+++ b/src/encode/encode.go
@@ -1,36 +1,82 @@
 package main
 
 import (
-  "os"
-  "fmt"
-  "strings"
-  "net/url"
-  "io/ioutil"
+	"flag"
+	"fmt"
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"net/url"
+	"os"
+	"strings"
 )
 
-var mode string 
-const (
-  encode = "enc"
-  decode = "dec"
+var ( // set at compile time via the linker
+	version = "v0.0.0"
+	githash = "000000"
 )
 
 func main() {
-  data, err := ioutil.ReadAll(os.Stdin)
-  if err != nil {
-    panic(err)
-  }
-  
-  v := strings.TrimSpace(string(data))
-  switch mode {
-  case encode:
-    fmt.Println(url.QueryEscape(v))
-  case decode:
-    d, err := url.QueryUnescape(v) 
-    if err != nil {
-      fmt.Printf("Invalid: %v\n", err)
-    }
-    fmt.Println(d)
-  default:
-    fmt.Printf("Unsupported mode: %v\n", mode)
-  }
+	var err error
+	var extractKeys flagList
+
+	cmdline := flag.NewFlagSet(os.Args[0], flag.ExitOnError)
+	var (
+		fEncode  = cmdline.Bool("enc", false, "URLencode the input.")
+		fDecode  = cmdline.Bool("dec", false, "URLdecode the input.")
+		fVerbose = cmdline.Bool("verbose", false, "Be more verbose.")
+		fVersion = cmdline.Bool("version", false, "Display the version.")
+	)
+	cmdline.Var(&extractKeys, "key", "Extract the value associated with the provided key. Provide -key repeatedly to extract multiple values.")
+	cmdline.Parse(os.Args[1:])
+
+	if *fVersion {
+		if version == githash {
+			fmt.Println(version)
+		} else {
+			fmt.Printf("%s (%s)\n", version, githash)
+		}
+		return
+	}
+
+	data, err := ioutil.ReadAll(os.Stdin)
+	if err != nil {
+		panic(err)
+	}
+
+	v := strings.TrimSpace(string(data))
+	if *fEncode {
+		v = url.QueryEscape(v)
+	} else if *fDecode {
+		v, err = url.QueryUnescape(v)
+		if err != nil {
+			fmt.Printf("Invalid: %v\n", err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	if len(extractKeys) < 1 {
+		fmt.Println(v)
+		return
+	}
+
+	u, err := url.ParseQuery(v)
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Printf("Invalid: %v\n", err)
+	}
+	for _, e := range extractKeys {
+		if *fVerbose {
+			fmt.Printf("%s: %s\n", e, u.Get(e))
+		} else {
+			fmt.Println(u.Get(e))
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+type flagList []string
+
+func (s *flagList) Set(v string) error {
+	*s = append(*s, v)
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (s *flagList) String() string {
+	return fmt.Sprintf("%+v", *s)
 }
diff --git a/tools/update-formula b/tools/update-formula
index e049f96..2829a86 100755
--- a/tools/update-formula
+++ b/tools/update-formula
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ class Urlencode < Formula
   def install
     system "install", "-d", "#{bin}"
     system "install", "-m", "0755", "bin/urlenc", "#{bin}/urlenc"
-    system "install", "-m", "0755", "bin/urldec", "#{bin}/urldec"
   end
 end
 FORMULA
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