Urlinate

Adds data to a URL

var newUrl = urlinate(url, data)

Adds data to a URL. As syntax sugar for recursion, if the data provided contains an object with a key === '$', the value at that key will be considered an array of arguments to pass to urlinate to obtain a string which will replace said object.

• url (string) - Anything you can pass to Node's url.parse
• data (object) - The data to add to the URL
• returns (string) newUrl - the original url but with specified data encoded in the d query parameter

var urlinator = require('urlinator')
urlinate('cachinate.io', {
  asset: {
    $: ['imaginate.io', {
      input: 'imgs.io/a.jpg'
    }]
  }
})
// cachinate.io?asset=imaginate.io%3Finput%3Dimgs.io%252Fa.jpg

Why?

This makes it easy to create an ecosystem of chainable HTTP GET APIs. This is useful if, for example, a browser is launching a request for you (from an image tag or css instruction) but you still want to use your API.

Services using this kind of API

• cachinate
• imaginate

Example with chaining and nesting

• The avatar example