🔗 superurl

superurl is a JavaScript library that can clean and extract info from URLs

Highlights

• Removes tracking parameters
• Adds protocol if missing, upgrades to https if domain requires it
• Extracts infos (handle, IDs, usernames) from URLs without network requests

Getting Started

Installation

npm i @layered/superurl

Usage

const { sanitizeUrl, urlInfo } = require('@layered/superurl')

const cleanUrl = sanitizeUrl('example.com/path?utc_campaign=upgrade')
// returns https://example.com/path

const infos = sanitizeUrl('http://twitter.com/elonmusk')
// returns
{
	originalUrl: 'http://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk',
	url: 'https://twitter.com/elonmusk',
	hostname: 'twitter.com',
	domain: 'twitter.com',
	subdomain: '',
	handle: 'elonmusk',
	providerId: null,
}

APIs

• sanitizeUrl(url, options) - Sanitize/clean URL
• urlInfo(url, options) - Extract data from URL

Sanitize URL

Sanitize/clean URL

sanitizeUrl(url: string | URL, options): string

• url - URL to sanitize, can be string or URL. Ex: 'google.com'
• options - Object of options to use, all optional:
  • allowedProtocols[] - What protocols are allowed for URL. Default: ['http:', 'https:']

URL info

Extract data from URL, without network requests.

urlInfo(url: string | URL, options): string

• url - URL to check, can be string or URL. Ex: 'twitter.com/twitter'
• options - Object of options to use, all optional:
  • allowedProtocols[] - What protocols are allowed for URL. Default: ['http:', 'https:']

More

Please report any issues here on GitHub. Any contributions are welcome

License

MIT

Copyright (c) Andrei Igna, Layered