use anchor tags to parse URLs into components

annotated.js

function(
  a // an anchor element
){
  return function( // return a function
    b,             // that takes a URL.
    c,             // (placeholder)
    d              // (placeholder)
  ){
    a.href = b;    // set the target of the link to the URL, and
    c = {};        // create a hash to be returned.
    for (          // for each
      d            // property
      in a         // of the anchor,
    ) if (         // if
      typeof a[d]  // the property
      == "string"  // is a string,
    ) c[d]         // add it
      = a[d];      // to the return object
    
    return c       // return the object
  }
}(
  document         // auto-run with
    .createElement // a cached anchor element
    ("a")
)

index.js

function(a){return function(b,c,d){a.href=b;c={};for(d in a)if(typeof a[d]=="string")c[d]=a[d];return c}}(document.createElement("a"))

LICENSE.txt

Copyright (c) 2011 Jed Schmidt, http://jed.is
 
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package.json

{
  "name": "parseURL",
  "keywords": ["parse", "URL", "link"]
}