URL

Stability: 3 - Stable

This module has utilities for URL resolution and parsing.
Call require('url') to use it.

Parsed URL objects have some or all of the following fields, depending on
whether or not they exist in the URL string. Any parts that are not in the URL
string will not be in the parsed object. Examples are shown for the URL

'http://user:pass@host.com:8080/p/a/t/h?query=string#hash'

• href: The full URL that was originally parsed. Both the protocol and host are lowercased.

  Example: 'http://user:pass@host.com:8080/p/a/t/h?query=string#hash'

• protocol: The request protocol, lowercased.

  Example: 'http:'

• slashes: The protocol requires slashes after the colon

  Example: true or false

• host: The full lowercased host portion of the URL, including port
  information.

  Example: 'host.com:8080'

• auth: The authentication information portion of a URL.

  Example: 'user:pass'

• hostname: Just the lowercased hostname portion of the host.

  Example: 'host.com'

• port: The port number portion of the host.

  Example: '8080'

• pathname: The path section of the URL, that comes after the host and
  before the query, including the initial slash if present.

  Example: '/p/a/t/h'

• search: The ‘query string’ portion of the URL, including the leading
  question mark.

  Example: '?query=string'

• path: Concatenation of pathname and search.

  Example: '/p/a/t/h?query=string'

• query: Either the ‘params’ portion of the query string, or a
  querystring-parsed object.

  Example: 'query=string' or {'query':'string'}

• hash: The ‘fragment’ portion of the URL including the pound-sign.

  Example: '#hash'

The following methods are provided by the URL module:

url.parse(urlStr[, parseQueryString][, slashesDenoteHost])

Take a URL string, and return an object.

Pass true as the second argument to also parse the query string using the
querystring module. If true then the query property will always be
assigned an object, and the search property will always be a (possibly
empty) string. Defaults to false.

Pass true as the third argument to treat //foo/bar as
{ host: 'foo', pathname: '/bar' } rather than
{ pathname: '//foo/bar' }. Defaults to false.

url.format(urlObj)

Take a parsed URL object, and return a formatted URL string.

Here’s how the formatting process works:

• href will be ignored.
• protocol is treated the same with or without the trailing : (colon).
  • The protocols http, https, ftp, gopher, file will be
    postfixed with :// (colon-slash-slash).
  • All other protocols mailto, xmpp, aim, sftp, foo, etc will
    be postfixed with : (colon)
• slashes set to true if the protocol requires :// (colon-slash-slash)
  • Only needs to be set for protocols not previously listed as requiring
    slashes, such as mongodb://localhost:8000/
• auth will be used if present.
• hostname will only be used if host is absent.
• port will only be used if host is absent.
• host will be used in place of hostname and port
• pathname is treated the same with or without the leading / (slash).
• search will be used in place of query.
  • It is treated the same with or without the leading ? (question mark)
• query (object; see querystring) will only be used if search is absent.
• hash is treated the same with or without the leading # (pound sign, anchor).

url.resolve(from, to)

Take a base URL, and a href URL, and resolve them as a browser would for
an anchor tag. Examples:

url.resolve('/one/two/three', 'four')         // '/one/two/four'
url.resolve('http://example.com/', '/one')    // 'http://example.com/one'
url.resolve('http://example.com/one', '/two') // 'http://example.com/two'