betturl

Better URL handling

Installation

npm install betturl

Usage

var betturl = require('betturl');
var parsed = betturl.parse('http://someurl.com');

// do something with parsed

Methods

betturl.parse(url, options = {})

Parse a URL.

The simplest form of this works very similar to the URL module from the node.js core.

> betturl.parse('http://www.google.com');
{
  url: 'http://www.google.com',   // the original url parsed
  protocol: 'http',
  host: 'www.google.com',
  port: 80,
  path: '/',
  query: '',
  hash: ''
}

betturl will also parse more complex URLs, like connection URLs, and infer the types of variables in the querystring.

> betturl.parse('mongodb://matt.insler%40gmail.com:[email protected]:6000,4.3.2.1:8000/database-123?auto_reconnect=true&namespace=foo&timeout=3000');
{
  url: 'mongodb://matt.insler%40gmail.com:[email protected]:6000,4.3.2.1:8000/database-123?auto_reconnect=true&namespace=foo&timeout=3000',
  protocol: 'mongodb',
  hosts: [
    { host: '1.2.3.4', port: 6000 },
    { host: '4.3.2.1', port: 8000 }
  ],
  path: '/database-123',
  query: {
    auto_reconnect: true,
    namespace: 'foo',
    timeout: 3000
  },
  hash: '',
  auth: {
    user: '[email protected]',
    password: 'foobar'
  }
}

Options

• parse_query Should the querystring be parsed into typed fields. By setting this to false, the query property will be a string. Accepted values: true, false Default: true

License

Copyright (c) 2012 Matt Insler
Licensed under the MIT license.