The WHATWG URL API#
Class: URL
#
Browser-compatible URL
class, implemented by following the WHATWG URL
Standard. Examples of parsed URLs may be found in the Standard itself.
The URL
class is also available on the global object.
In accordance with browser conventions, all properties of URL
objects
are implemented as getters and setters on the class prototype, rather than as
data properties on the object itself. Thus, unlike legacy urlObject
s,
using the delete
keyword on any properties of URL
objects (e.g. delete myURL.protocol
, delete myURL.pathname
, etc) has no effect but will still
return true
.
new URL(input[, base])
#
input
<string> The absolute or relative input URL to parse. If input
is relative, then base
is required. If input
is absolute, the base
is ignored. If input
is not a string, it is converted to a string first.
base
<string> The base URL to resolve against if the input
is not
absolute. If base
is not a string, it is converted to a string first.
Creates a new URL
object by parsing the input
relative to the base
. If
base
is passed as a string, it will be parsed equivalent to new URL(base)
.
const myURL = new URL('/foo', 'https://example.org/');
The URL constructor is accessible as a property on the global object.
It can also be imported from the built-in url module:
import { URL } from 'node:url';
console.log(URL === globalThis.URL);
console.log(URL === require('node:url').URL);
A TypeError
will be thrown if the input
or base
are not valid URLs. Note
that an effort will be made to coerce the given values into strings. For
instance:
const myURL = new URL({ toString: () => 'https://example.org/' });
Unicode characters appearing within the host name of input
will be
automatically converted to ASCII using the Punycode algorithm.
const myURL = new URL('https://測試');
This feature is only available if the node
executable was compiled with
ICU enabled. If not, the domain names are passed through unchanged.
In cases where it is not known in advance if input
is an absolute URL
and a base
is provided, it is advised to validate that the origin
of
the URL
object is what is expected.
let myURL = new URL('http://Example.com/', 'https://example.org/');
myURL = new URL('https://Example.com/', 'https://example.org/');
myURL = new URL('foo://Example.com/', 'https://example.org/');
myURL = new URL('http:Example.com/', 'https://example.org/');
myURL = new URL('https:Example.com/', 'https://example.org/');
myURL = new URL('foo:Example.com/', 'https://example.org/');
url.hash
#
Gets and sets the fragment portion of the URL.
const myURL = new URL('https://example.org/foo#bar');
console.log(myURL.hash);
myURL.hash = 'baz';
console.log(myURL.href);
Invalid URL characters included in the value assigned to the hash
property
are percent-encoded. The selection of which characters to
percent-encode may vary somewhat from what the url.parse()
and
url.format()
methods would produce.
url.host
#
Gets and sets the host portion of the URL.
const myURL = new URL('https://example.org:81/foo');
console.log(myURL.host);
myURL.host = 'example.com:82';
console.log(myURL.href);
Invalid host values assigned to the host
property are ignored.
url.hostname
#
Gets and sets the host name portion of the URL. The key difference between
url.host
and url.hostname
is that url.hostname
does not include the
port.
const myURL = new URL('https://example.org:81/foo');
console.log(myURL.hostname);
myURL.hostname = 'example.com:82';
console.log(myURL.href);
myURL.host = 'example.org:82';
console.log(myURL.href);
Invalid host name values assigned to the hostname
property are ignored.
url.href
#
Gets and sets the serialized URL.
const myURL = new URL('https://example.org/foo');
console.log(myURL.href);
myURL.href = 'https://example.com/bar';
console.log(myURL.href);
Getting the value of the href
property is equivalent to calling
url.toString()
.
Setting the value of this property to a new value is equivalent to creating a
new URL
object using new URL(value)
. Each of the URL
object's properties will be modified.
If the value assigned to the href
property is not a valid URL, a TypeError
will be thrown.
url.origin
#
Gets the read-only serialization of the URL's origin.
const myURL = new URL('https://example.org/foo/bar?baz');
console.log(myURL.origin);
const idnURL = new URL('https://測試');
console.log(idnURL.origin);
console.log(idnURL.hostname);
url.password
#
Gets and sets the password portion of the URL.
const myURL = new URL('https://abc:xyz@example.com');
console.log(myURL.password);
myURL.password = '123';
console.log(myURL.href);
Invalid URL characters included in the value assigned to the password
property
are percent-encoded. The selection of which characters to
percent-encode may vary somewhat from what the url.parse()
and
url.format()
methods would produce.
url.pathname
#
Gets and sets the path portion of the URL.
const myURL = new URL('https://example.org/abc/xyz?123');
console.log(myURL.pathname);
myURL.pathname = '/abcdef';
console.log(myURL.href);
Invalid URL characters included in the value assigned to the pathname
property are percent-encoded. The selection of which characters
to percent-encode may vary somewhat from what the url.parse()
and
url.format()
methods would produce.
url.port
#
Gets and sets the port portion of the URL.
The port value may be a number or a string containing a number in the range
0
to 65535
(inclusive). Setting the value to the default port of the
URL
objects given protocol
will result in the port
value becoming
the empty string (''
).
The port value can be an empty string in which case the port depends on
the protocol/scheme:
protocol | port |
---|
"ftp" | 21 |
"file" | |
"http" | 80 |
"https" | 443 |
"ws" | 80 |
"wss" | 443 |
Upon assigning a value to the port, the value will first be converted to a
string using .toString()
.
If that string is invalid but it begins with a number, the leading number is
assigned to port
.
If the number lies outside the range denoted above, it is ignored.
const myURL = new URL('https://example.org:8888');
console.log(myURL.port);
myURL.port = '443';
console.log(myURL.port);
console.log(myURL.href);
myURL.port = 1234;
console.log(myURL.port);
console.log(myURL.href);
myURL.port = 'abcd';
console.log(myURL.port);
myURL.port = '5678abcd';
console.log(myURL.port);
myURL.port = 1234.5678;
console.log(myURL.port);
myURL.port = 1e10;
console.log(myURL.port);
Numbers which contain a decimal point,
such as floating-point numbers or numbers in scientific notation,
are not an exception to this rule.
Leading numbers up to the decimal point will be set as the URL's port,
assuming they are valid:
myURL.port = 4.567e21;
console.log(myURL.port);
url.protocol
#
Gets and sets the protocol portion of the URL.
const myURL = new URL('https://example.org');
console.log(myURL.protocol);
myURL.protocol = 'ftp';
console.log(myURL.href);
Invalid URL protocol values assigned to the protocol
property are ignored.
Special schemes#
The WHATWG URL Standard considers a handful of URL protocol schemes to be
special in terms of how they are parsed and serialized. When a URL is
parsed using one of these special protocols, the url.protocol
property
may be changed to another special protocol but cannot be changed to a
non-special protocol, and vice versa.
For instance, changing from http
to https
works:
const u = new URL('http://example.org');
u.protocol = 'https';
console.log(u.href);
However, changing from http
to a hypothetical fish
protocol does not
because the new protocol is not special.
const u = new URL('http://example.org');
u.protocol = 'fish';
console.log(u.href);
Likewise, changing from a non-special protocol to a special protocol is also
not permitted:
const u = new URL('fish://example.org');
u.protocol = 'http';
console.log(u.href);
According to the WHATWG URL Standard, special protocol schemes are ftp
,
file
, http
, https
, ws
, and wss
.
url.search
#
Gets and sets the serialized query portion of the URL.
const myURL = new URL('https://example.org/abc?123');
console.log(myURL.search);
myURL.search = 'abc=xyz';
console.log(myURL.href);
Any invalid URL characters appearing in the value assigned the search
property will be percent-encoded. The selection of which
characters to percent-encode may vary somewhat from what the url.parse()
and url.format()
methods would produce.
url.searchParams
#
Gets the URLSearchParams
object representing the query parameters of the
URL. This property is read-only but the URLSearchParams
object it provides
can be used to mutate the URL instance; to replace the entirety of query
parameters of the URL, use the url.search
setter. See
URLSearchParams
documentation for details.
Use care when using .searchParams
to modify the URL
because,
per the WHATWG specification, the URLSearchParams
object uses
different rules to determine which characters to percent-encode. For
instance, the URL
object will not percent encode the ASCII tilde (~
)
character, while URLSearchParams
will always encode it:
const myUrl = new URL('https://example.org/abc?foo=~bar');
console.log(myUrl.search);
myUrl.searchParams.sort();
console.log(myUrl.search);
url.username
#
Gets and sets the username portion of the URL.
const myURL = new URL('https://abc:xyz@example.com');
console.log(myURL.username);
myURL.username = '123';
console.log(myURL.href);
Any invalid URL characters appearing in the value assigned the username
property will be percent-encoded. The selection of which
characters to percent-encode may vary somewhat from what the url.parse()
and url.format()
methods would produce.
url.toString()
#
The toString()
method on the URL
object returns the serialized URL. The
value returned is equivalent to that of url.href
and url.toJSON()
.
url.toJSON()
#
The toJSON()
method on the URL
object returns the serialized URL. The
value returned is equivalent to that of url.href
and
url.toString()
.
This method is automatically called when an URL
object is serialized
with JSON.stringify()
.
const myURLs = [
new URL('https://www.example.com'),
new URL('https://test.example.org'),
];
console.log(JSON.stringify(myURLs));
URL.createObjectURL(blob)
#
Added in: v16.7.0
Creates a 'blob:nodedata:...'
URL string that represents the given <Blob>
object and can be used to retrieve the Blob
later.
const {
Blob,
resolveObjectURL,
} = require('node:buffer');
const blob = new Blob(['hello']);
const id = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
const otherBlob = resolveObjectURL(id);
console.log(otherBlob.size);
The data stored by the registered <Blob> will be retained in memory until
URL.revokeObjectURL()
is called to remove it.
Blob
objects are registered within the current thread. If using Worker
Threads, Blob
objects registered within one Worker will not be available
to other workers or the main thread.
URL.revokeObjectURL(id)
#
Added in: v16.7.0
id
<string> A 'blob:nodedata:...
URL string returned by a prior call to
URL.createObjectURL()
.
Removes the stored <Blob> identified by the given ID. Attempting to revoke a
ID that isn't registered will silently fail.
Class: URLSearchParams
#
The URLSearchParams
API provides read and write access to the query of a
URL
. The URLSearchParams
class can also be used standalone with one of the
four following constructors.
The URLSearchParams
class is also available on the global object.
The WHATWG URLSearchParams
interface and the querystring
module have
similar purpose, but the purpose of the querystring
module is more
general, as it allows the customization of delimiter characters (&
and =
).
On the other hand, this API is designed purely for URL query strings.
const myURL = new URL('https://example.org/?abc=123');
console.log(myURL.searchParams.get('abc'));
myURL.searchParams.append('abc', 'xyz');
console.log(myURL.href);
myURL.searchParams.delete('abc');
myURL.searchParams.set('a', 'b');
console.log(myURL.href);
const newSearchParams = new URLSearchParams(myURL.searchParams);
newSearchParams.append('a', 'c');
console.log(myURL.href);
console.log(newSearchParams.toString());
myURL.search = newSearchParams;
console.log(myURL.href);
newSearchParams.delete('a');
console.log(myURL.href);
new URLSearchParams()
#
Instantiate a new empty URLSearchParams
object.
new URLSearchParams(string)
#
Parse the string
as a query string, and use it to instantiate a new
URLSearchParams
object. A leading '?'
, if present, is ignored.
let params;
params = new URLSearchParams('user=abc&query=xyz');
console.log(params.get('user'));
console.log(params.toString());
params = new URLSearchParams('?user=abc&query=xyz');
console.log(params.toString());
new URLSearchParams(obj)
#
Added in: v7.10.0, v6.13.0
obj
<Object> An object representing a collection of key-value pairs
Instantiate a new URLSearchParams
object with a query hash map. The key and
value of each property of obj
are always coerced to strings.
Unlike querystring
module, duplicate keys in the form of array values are
not allowed. Arrays are stringified using array.toString()
, which simply
joins all array elements with commas.
const params = new URLSearchParams({
user: 'abc',
query: ['first', 'second']
});
console.log(params.getAll('query'));
console.log(params.toString());
new URLSearchParams(iterable)
#
Added in: v7.10.0, v6.13.0
iterable
<Iterable> An iterable object whose elements are key-value pairs
Instantiate a new URLSearchParams
object with an iterable map in a way that
is similar to Map
's constructor. iterable
can be an Array
or any
iterable object. That means iterable
can be another URLSearchParams
, in
which case the constructor will simply create a clone of the provided
URLSearchParams
. Elements of iterable
are key-value pairs, and can
themselves be any iterable object.
Duplicate keys are allowed.
let params;
params = new URLSearchParams([
['user', 'abc'],
['query', 'first'],
['query', 'second'],
]);
console.log(params.toString());
const map = new Map();
map.set('user', 'abc');
map.set('query', 'xyz');
params = new URLSearchParams(map);
console.log(params.toString());
function* getQueryPairs() {
yield ['user', 'abc'];
yield ['query', 'first'];
yield ['query', 'second'];
}
params = new URLSearchParams(getQueryPairs());
console.log(params.toString());
new URLSearchParams([
['user', 'abc', 'error'],
]);
urlSearchParams.append(name, value)
#
Append a new name-value pair to the query string.
urlSearchParams.delete(name)
#
Remove all name-value pairs whose name is name
.
urlSearchParams.entries()
#
Returns an ES6 Iterator
over each of the name-value pairs in the query.
Each item of the iterator is a JavaScript Array
. The first item of the Array
is the name
, the second item of the Array
is the value
.
Alias for urlSearchParams[@@iterator]()
.
urlSearchParams.forEach(fn[, thisArg])
#
fn
<Function> Invoked for each name-value pair in the query
thisArg
<Object> To be used as this
value for when fn
is called
Iterates over each name-value pair in the query and invokes the given function.
const myURL = new URL('https://example.org/?a=b&c=d');
myURL.searchParams.forEach((value, name, searchParams) => {
console.log(name, value, myURL.searchParams === searchParams);
});
urlSearchParams.get(name)
#
name
<string>
- Returns: <string> or
null
if there is no name-value pair with the given
name
.
Returns the value of the first name-value pair whose name is name
. If there
are no such pairs, null
is returned.
urlSearchParams.getAll(name)
#
Returns the values of all name-value pairs whose name is name
. If there are
no such pairs, an empty array is returned.
urlSearchParams.has(name)
#
Returns true
if there is at least one name-value pair whose name is name
.
urlSearchParams.keys()
#
Returns an ES6 Iterator
over the names of each name-value pair.
const params = new URLSearchParams('foo=bar&foo=baz');
for (const name of params.keys()) {
console.log(name);
}
urlSearchParams.set(name, value)
#
Sets the value in the URLSearchParams
object associated with name
to
value
. If there are any pre-existing name-value pairs whose names are name
,
set the first such pair's value to value
and remove all others. If not,
append the name-value pair to the query string.
const params = new URLSearchParams();
params.append('foo', 'bar');
params.append('foo', 'baz');
params.append('abc', 'def');
console.log(params.toString());
params.set('foo', 'def');
params.set('xyz', 'opq');
console.log(params.toString());
urlSearchParams.sort()
#
Added in: v7.7.0, v6.13.0
Sort all existing name-value pairs in-place by their names. Sorting is done
with a stable sorting algorithm, so relative order between name-value pairs
with the same name is preserved.
This method can be used, in particular, to increase cache hits.
const params = new URLSearchParams('query[]=abc&type=search&query[]=123');
params.sort();
console.log(params.toString());
urlSearchParams.toString()
#
Returns the search parameters serialized as a string, with characters
percent-encoded where necessary.
urlSearchParams.values()
#
Returns an ES6 Iterator
over the values of each name-value pair.
urlSearchParams[Symbol.iterator]()
#
Returns an ES6 Iterator
over each of the name-value pairs in the query string.
Each item of the iterator is a JavaScript Array
. The first item of the Array
is the name
, the second item of the Array
is the value
.
Alias for urlSearchParams.entries()
.
const params = new URLSearchParams('foo=bar&xyz=baz');
for (const [name, value] of params) {
console.log(name, value);
}
url.domainToASCII(domain)
#
Added in: v7.4.0, v6.13.0
Returns the Punycode ASCII serialization of the domain
. If domain
is an
invalid domain, the empty string is returned.
It performs the inverse operation to url.domainToUnicode()
.
This feature is only available if the node
executable was compiled with
ICU enabled. If not, the domain names are passed through unchanged.
import url from 'node:url';
console.log(url.domainToASCII('español.com'));
console.log(url.domainToASCII('中文.com'));
console.log(url.domainToASCII('xn--iñvalid.com'));
const url = require('node:url');
console.log(url.domainToASCII('español.com'));
console.log(url.domainToASCII('中文.com'));
console.log(url.domainToASCII('xn--iñvalid.com'));
url.domainToUnicode(domain)
#
Added in: v7.4.0, v6.13.0
Returns the Unicode serialization of the domain
. If domain
is an invalid
domain, the empty string is returned.
It performs the inverse operation to url.domainToASCII()
.
This feature is only available if the node
executable was compiled with
ICU enabled. If not, the domain names are passed through unchanged.
import url from 'node:url';
console.log(url.domainToUnicode('xn--espaol-zwa.com'));
console.log(url.domainToUnicode('xn--fiq228c.com'));
console.log(url.domainToUnicode('xn--iñvalid.com'));
const url = require('node:url');
console.log(url.domainToUnicode('xn--espaol-zwa.com'));
console.log(url.domainToUnicode('xn--fiq228c.com'));
console.log(url.domainToUnicode('xn--iñvalid.com'));
url.fileURLToPath(url)
#
Added in: v10.12.0
url
<URL> | <string> The file URL string or URL object to convert to a path.
- Returns: <string> The fully-resolved platform-specific Node.js file path.
This function ensures the correct decodings of percent-encoded characters as
well as ensuring a cross-platform valid absolute path string.
import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
const __filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
new URL('file:///C:/path/').pathname;
fileURLToPath('file:///C:/path/');
new URL('file://nas/foo.txt').pathname;
fileURLToPath('file://nas/foo.txt');
new URL('file:///你好.txt').pathname;
fileURLToPath('file:///你好.txt');
new URL('file:///hello world').pathname;
fileURLToPath('file:///hello world');
const { fileURLToPath } = require('node:url');
new URL('file:///C:/path/').pathname;
fileURLToPath('file:///C:/path/');
new URL('file://nas/foo.txt').pathname;
fileURLToPath('file://nas/foo.txt');
new URL('file:///你好.txt').pathname;
fileURLToPath('file:///你好.txt');
new URL('file:///hello world').pathname;
fileURLToPath('file:///hello world');
url.format(URL[, options])
#
Added in: v7.6.0
URL
<URL> A WHATWG URL object
options
<Object>
auth
<boolean> true
if the serialized URL string should include the
username and password, false
otherwise. Default: true
.
fragment
<boolean> true
if the serialized URL string should include the
fragment, false
otherwise. Default: true
.
search
<boolean> true
if the serialized URL string should include the
search query, false
otherwise. Default: true
.
unicode
<boolean> true
if Unicode characters appearing in the host
component of the URL string should be encoded directly as opposed to being
Punycode encoded. Default: false
.
- Returns: <string>
Returns a customizable serialization of a URL String
representation of a
WHATWG URL object.
The URL object has both a toString()
method and href
property that return
string serializations of the URL. These are not, however, customizable in
any way. The url.format(URL[, options])
method allows for basic customization
of the output.
import url from 'node:url';
const myURL = new URL('https://a:b@測試?abc#foo');
console.log(myURL.href);
console.log(myURL.toString());
console.log(url.format(myURL, { fragment: false, unicode: true, auth: false }));
const url = require('node:url');
const myURL = new URL('https://a:b@測試?abc#foo');
console.log(myURL.href);
console.log(myURL.toString());
console.log(url.format(myURL, { fragment: false, unicode: true, auth: false }));
url.pathToFileURL(path)
#
Added in: v10.12.0
path
<string> The path to convert to a File URL.
- Returns: <URL> The file URL object.
This function ensures that path
is resolved absolutely, and that the URL
control characters are correctly encoded when converting into a File URL.
import { pathToFileURL } from 'node:url';
new URL('/foo#1', 'file:');
pathToFileURL('/foo#1');
new URL('/some/path%.c', 'file:');
pathToFileURL('/some/path%.c');
const { pathToFileURL } = require('node:url');
new URL(__filename);
new URL(__filename);
pathToFileURL(__filename);
pathToFileURL(__filename);
new URL('/foo#1', 'file:');
pathToFileURL('/foo#1');
new URL('/some/path%.c', 'file:');
pathToFileURL('/some/path%.c');
url.urlToHttpOptions(url)
#
Added in: v15.7.0
url
<URL> The WHATWG URL object to convert to an options object.
- Returns: <Object> Options object
protocol
<string> Protocol to use.
hostname
<string> A domain name or IP address of the server to issue the
request to.
hash
<string> The fragment portion of the URL.
search
<string> The serialized query portion of the URL.
pathname
<string> The path portion of the URL.
path
<string> Request path. Should include query string if any.
E.G. '/index.html?page=12'
. An exception is thrown when the request path
contains illegal characters. Currently, only spaces are rejected but that
may change in the future.
href
<string> The serialized URL.
port
<number> Port of remote server.
auth
<string> Basic authentication i.e. 'user:password'
to compute an
Authorization header.
This utility function converts a URL object into an ordinary options object as
expected by the http.request()
and https.request()
APIs.
import { urlToHttpOptions } from 'node:url';
const myURL = new URL('https://a:b@測試?abc#foo');
console.log(urlToHttpOptions(myURL));
const { urlToHttpOptions } = require('node:url');
const myURL = new URL('https://a:b@測試?abc#foo');
console.log(urlToHttpOptions(myUrl));
Legacy URL API#
Legacy urlObject
#
The legacy urlObject
(require('node:url').Url
or
import { Url } from 'node:url'
) is
created and returned by the url.parse()
function.
urlObject.auth
#
The auth
property is the username and password portion of the URL, also
referred to as userinfo. This string subset follows the protocol
and
double slashes (if present) and precedes the host
component, delimited by @
.
The string is either the username, or it is the username and password separated
by :
.
For example: 'user:pass'
.
urlObject.hash
#
The hash
property is the fragment identifier portion of the URL including the
leading #
character.
For example: '#hash'
.
urlObject.host
#
The host
property is the full lower-cased host portion of the URL, including
the port
if specified.
For example: 'sub.example.com:8080'
.
urlObject.hostname
#
The hostname
property is the lower-cased host name portion of the host
component without the port
included.
For example: 'sub.example.com'
.
urlObject.href
#
The href
property is the full URL string that was parsed with both the
protocol
and host
components converted to lower-case.
For example: 'http://user:pass@sub.example.com:8080/p/a/t/h?query=string#hash'
.
urlObject.path
#
The path
property is a concatenation of the pathname
and search
components.
For example: '/p/a/t/h?query=string'
.
No decoding of the path
is performed.
urlObject.pathname
#
The pathname
property consists of the entire path section of the URL. This
is everything following the host
(including the port
) and before the start
of the query
or hash
components, delimited by either the ASCII question
mark (?
) or hash (#
) characters.
For example: '/p/a/t/h'
.
No decoding of the path string is performed.
urlObject.port
#
The port
property is the numeric port portion of the host
component.
For example: '8080'
.
urlObject.protocol
#
The protocol
property identifies the URL's lower-cased protocol scheme.
For example: 'http:'
.
urlObject.query
#
The query
property is either the query string without the leading ASCII
question mark (?
), or an object returned by the querystring
module's
parse()
method. Whether the query
property is a string or object is
determined by the parseQueryString
argument passed to url.parse()
.
For example: 'query=string'
or {'query': 'string'}
.
If returned as a string, no decoding of the query string is performed. If
returned as an object, both keys and values are decoded.
urlObject.search
#
The search
property consists of the entire "query string" portion of the
URL, including the leading ASCII question mark (?
) character.
For example: '?query=string'
.
No decoding of the query string is performed.
urlObject.slashes
#
The slashes
property is a boolean
with a value of true
if two ASCII
forward-slash characters (/
) are required following the colon in the
protocol
.
url.format(urlObject)
#
urlObject
<Object> | <string> A URL object (as returned by url.parse()
or
constructed otherwise). If a string, it is converted to an object by passing
it to url.parse()
.
The url.format()
method returns a formatted URL string derived from
urlObject
.
const url = require('node:url');
url.format({
protocol: 'https',
hostname: 'example.com',
pathname: '/some/path',
query: {
page: 1,
format: 'json'
}
});
If urlObject
is not an object or a string, url.format()
will throw a
TypeError
.
The formatting process operates as follows:
- A new empty string
result
is created.
- If
urlObject.protocol
is a string, it is appended as-is to result
.
- Otherwise, if
urlObject.protocol
is not undefined
and is not a string, an
Error
is thrown.
- For all string values of
urlObject.protocol
that do not end with an ASCII
colon (:
) character, the literal string :
will be appended to result
.
- If either of the following conditions is true, then the literal string
//
will be appended to result
:
urlObject.slashes
property is true;
urlObject.protocol
begins with http
, https
, ftp
, gopher
, or
file
;
- If the value of the
urlObject.auth
property is truthy, and either
urlObject.host
or urlObject.hostname
are not undefined
, the value of
urlObject.auth
will be coerced into a string and appended to result
followed by the literal string @
.
- If the
urlObject.host
property is undefined
then:
- If the
urlObject.hostname
is a string, it is appended to result
.
- Otherwise, if
urlObject.hostname
is not undefined
and is not a string,
an Error
is thrown.
- If the
urlObject.port
property value is truthy, and urlObject.hostname
is not undefined
:
- The literal string
:
is appended to result
, and
- The value of
urlObject.port
is coerced to a string and appended to
result
.
- Otherwise, if the
urlObject.host
property value is truthy, the value of
urlObject.host
is coerced to a string and appended to result
.
- If the
urlObject.pathname
property is a string that is not an empty string:
- If the
urlObject.pathname
does not start with an ASCII forward slash
(/
), then the literal string '/'
is appended to result
.
- The value of
urlObject.pathname
is appended to result
.
- Otherwise, if
urlObject.pathname
is not undefined
and is not a string, an
Error
is thrown.
- If the
urlObject.search
property is undefined
and if the urlObject.query
property is an Object
, the literal string ?
is appended to result
followed by the output of calling the querystring
module's stringify()
method passing the value of urlObject.query
.
- Otherwise, if
urlObject.search
is a string:
- If the value of
urlObject.search
does not start with the ASCII question
mark (?
) character, the literal string ?
is appended to result
.
- The value of
urlObject.search
is appended to result
.
- Otherwise, if
urlObject.search
is not undefined
and is not a string, an
Error
is thrown.
- If the
urlObject.hash
property is a string:
- If the value of
urlObject.hash
does not start with the ASCII hash (#
)
character, the literal string #
is appended to result
.
- The value of
urlObject.hash
is appended to result
.
- Otherwise, if the
urlObject.hash
property is not undefined
and is not a
string, an Error
is thrown.
result
is returned.
url.parse(urlString[, parseQueryString[, slashesDenoteHost]])
#
urlString
<string> The URL string to parse.
parseQueryString
<boolean> If true
, the query
property will always
be set to an object returned by the querystring
module's parse()
method. If false
, the query
property on the returned URL object will be an
unparsed, undecoded string. Default: false
.
slashesDenoteHost
<boolean> If true
, the first token after the literal
string //
and preceding the next /
will be interpreted as the host
.
For instance, given //foo/bar
, the result would be
{host: 'foo', pathname: '/bar'}
rather than {pathname: '//foo/bar'}
.
Default: false
.
The url.parse()
method takes a URL string, parses it, and returns a URL
object.
A TypeError
is thrown if urlString
is not a string.
A URIError
is thrown if the auth
property is present but cannot be decoded.
url.parse()
uses a lenient, non-standard algorithm for parsing URL
strings. It is prone to security issues such as host name spoofing
and incorrect handling of usernames and passwords.
url.parse()
is an exception to most of the legacy APIs. Despite its security
concerns, it is legacy and not deprecated because it is:
- Faster than the alternative WHATWG
URL
parser.
- Easier to use with regards to relative URLs than the alternative WHATWG
URL
API.
- Widely relied upon within the npm ecosystem.
Use with caution.
url.resolve(from, to)
#
from
<string> The base URL to use if to
is a relative URL.
to
<string> The target URL to resolve.
The url.resolve()
method resolves a target URL relative to a base URL in a
manner similar to that of a web browser resolving an anchor tag.
const url = require('node:url');
url.resolve('/one/two/three', 'four');
url.resolve('http://example.com/', '/one');
url.resolve('http://example.com/one', '/two');
To achieve the same result using the WHATWG URL API:
function resolve(from, to) {
const resolvedUrl = new URL(to, new URL(from, 'resolve://'));
if (resolvedUrl.protocol === 'resolve:') {
const { pathname, search, hash } = resolvedUrl;
return pathname + search + hash;
}
return resolvedUrl.toString();
}
resolve('/one/two/three', 'four');
resolve('http://example.com/', '/one');
resolve('http://example.com/one', '/two');