redact-url

Redact or remove authentication data from URLs

Installation

Download node at nodejs.org and install it, if you haven't already.

npm install redact-url --save

Usage

var redact = require('redact-url');

// u:p style
redact('https://suzy:[email protected]');
// https://[email protected]

// sketchy query params
redact('https://example.com/password=1');
// https://example.com/password=REDACTED

// optional replacment string
redact('https://example.com/password=1', 'XXX');
// https://example.com/password=XXX

// clean URLs are untouched
redact('https://no-auth-stuff-here.com');
// https://no-auth-stuff-here.com

// non-URLs are untouched
redact("this is not a url");
// this is not a url

Tests

npm install
npm test

License

MIT

Zeke Sikelianos <[email protected]> (http://zeke.sikelianos.com/)