I'm trying to find a relatively easy and reliable method to extract the base URL from a string variable using JavaScript (or jQuery).
For example, given something like:
http://www.sitename.com/article/2009/09/14/this-is-an-article/
I'd like to get:
http://www.sitename.com/
Is a regular expression the best bet? If so, what statement could I use to assign the base URL extracted from a given string to a new variable?
I've done some searching on this, but everything I find in the JavaScript world seems to revolve around gathering this information from the actual document URL using location.host or similar.
Edit: Some complain that it doesn't take into account protocol. So I decided to upgrade the code, since it is marked as answer. For those who like one-line-code... well sorry this why we use code minimizers, code should be human readable and this way is better... in my opinion.
var pathArray = "https://somedomain.com".split( '/' );
var protocol = pathArray[0];
var host = pathArray[2];
var url = protocol + '//' + host;
Or use Davids solution from below.
WebKit-based browsers, Firefox as of version 21 and current versions of Internet Explorer (IE 10 and 11) implement location.origin
.
location.origin
includes the protocol, the domain and optionally the port of the URL.
For example, location.origin
of the URL http://www.sitename.com/article/2009/09/14/this-is-an-article/
is http://www.sitename.com
.
To target browsers without support for location.origin
use the following concise polyfill:
if (typeof location.origin === 'undefined')
location.origin = location.protocol + '//' + location.host;
Don't need to use jQuery, just use
location.hostname
There is no reason to do splits to get the path, hostname, etc from a string that is a link. You just need to use a link
//create a new element link with your link
var a = document.createElement("a");
a.href="http://www.sitename.com/article/2009/09/14/this-is-an-article/";
//hide it from view when it is added
a.style.display="none";
//add it
document.body.appendChild(a);
//read the links "features"
alert(a.protocol);
alert(a.hostname)
alert(a.pathname)
alert(a.port);
alert(a.hash);
//remove it
document.body.removeChild(a);
You can easily do it with jQuery appending the element and reading its attr.
var host = location.protocol + '//' + location.host + '/';
String.prototype.url = function() {
const a = $('<a />').attr('href', this)[0];
// or if you are not using jQuery