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Created May 10, 2011 16:39
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use anchor tags to parse URLs into components
function(
a // an anchor element
){
return function( // return a function
b, // that takes a URL.
c, // (placeholder)
d // (placeholder)
){
a.href = b; // set the target of the link to the URL, and
c = {}; // create a hash to be returned.
for ( // for each
d // property
in a // of the anchor,
) if ( // if
"" + a[d] // the string version of the property
=== a[d] // is the same as the property
) c[d] // add it
= a[d]; // to the return object
return c // return the object
}
}(
document // auto-run with
.createElement // a cached anchor element
("a")
)
function(a){return function(b,c,d){a.href=b;c={};for(d in a)if(""+a[d]===a[d])c[d]=a[d];return c}}(document.createElement("a"))
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, December 2004
Copyright (C) 2011 Jed Schmidt <http://jed.is>
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.
{
"name": "parseURL",
"keywords": ["parse", "URL", "link"]
}
@SiddharthShyniben
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Not sure if this existed back then but URL?

new URL('https://google.com')
// => URL {hash: "", host: "google.com", hostname: "google.com", href: "https://google.com/", origin: "https://google.com", password: "", pathname: "/", port: "", protocol: "https:", search: "", searchParams: URLSearchParams {}, username: "", [[Prototype]]: URL}

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