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URI Parsing with Javascript
var parser = document.createElement('a');
parser.href = "http://example.com:3000/pathname/?search=test#hash";
parser.protocol; // => "http:"
parser.hostname; // => "example.com"
parser.port; // => "3000"
parser.pathname; // => "/pathname/"
parser.search; // => "?search=test"
parser.hash; // => "#hash"
parser.host; // => "example.com:3000"
@RobinZhao00
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const parseURL = (url) => {
if (!url) throw new Error('pls input correct url');
url = url.replace(/\s+/g, '');

const parser = document.createElement("a");
parser.href = url;

const queries = parser.search
.replace(/^?/, "")
.split("&")
.map(item => item.split('='))
.reduce((prev, curr) => ({
...prev,
[curr[0]]: curr[1],
}), {});

return {
protocol: parser.protocol,
host: parser.host,
hostname: parser.hostname,
port: parser.port,
pathname: parser.pathname,
hash: parser.hash,
queries,
}
};

@tayloraleach
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this is gold

@xx4159
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xx4159 commented May 2, 2019

Thanks for your sharing.
I LOVE this way, but I'm wondering is it better way than regex.

@ZzZombo
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ZzZombo commented Jul 8, 2019

This is not URI parsing, only URL parsing.

@forelabs
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additional you can get the origin at once:

parser.origin // => http://example.com

@frankdors
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frankdors commented Oct 18, 2019

@Connum
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Connum commented Feb 28, 2020

new URL('https://gist.github.com/jlong/2428561?foo=bar#test')

The Best

Note that this will only worl with full absolute URLs and throw an error with for example new URL('options.php'):
TypeError: options.php is not a valid URL.

While the createElement-solution also takes relative URLs (although the result you get back will be a full URL):

let urlParser = document.createElement("a");
urlParser.href = 'options.php';
urlParser.hash = 'foobar';
console.log(urlParser.href);
console.log(urlParser.getAttribute('href'));
// result of both logs is the full URL: https://example.com/options.php#foobar

@martinwojtus
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martinwojtus commented May 1, 2020

parser.host and praser.hostname are available,
parser.host - return domain WITH the port ex: github.com
parser.hostname - return just domain ex: github.com:8080

checked here

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