A very small, fast, dependency free url parser and formatter for nodejs and the web
- fast
- few lines of code
- 100% test coverage
It extracts all url fragments in a single step using one massive regex
npm install --save urlite var url = require('urlite') url.parse('http://user:pass@blah.com:3000/path?query=string#fragment') { auth: 'user:pass', hash: '#fragment', hostname: 'blah.com', href: 'http://user:pass@blah.com:3000/path?query=string#fragment', path: '/path?query=string', pathname: '/path', port: '3000', protocol: 'http:', search: '?query=string' } var href = window.location.href url.format(url.parse(href)) === hrefAn extended version of urlite is available at urlite/extra. This includes helpful features such as querystring, hash and auth parsing:
// version of urlite with additional extras like querystring and auth parsing var url = require('urlite/extra') var parsed = url.parse('http://user:pass@blah.com:3000/path?a=b#c=d') parsed.search // -> { a: "b" } parsed.search.a = 'c' parsed.hash // -> { c: "d" } parsed.hash.c = 'e' parsed.auth // -> { user: 'user', password: 'password' } url.format(parsed) // -> 'http://user:pass@blah.com:3000/path?a=c#c=e'File size: NAME SIZE SIZE (minified) urlite 3.02 kB 0.957 kB urlparser 5.82 kB 1.57 kB url-parse 12 kB 2.89 kB url 46.5 kB 11.8 kB min-url 25.6 kB 12.6 kB fast-url-parser 55.2 kB 15 kB url-parse-as-address 78.7 kB 22.7 kB Performance: require("urlite").parse 2,210,417 ops/sec ±0.90% (95 runs sampled) require("fast-url-parser").parse 2,047,302 ops/sec ±0.89% (95 runs sampled) require("urlparser").parse 631,561 ops/secs ±0.87% (92 runs sampled) require("min-url").parse 343,680 ops/sec ±1.16% (93 runs sampled) require("url-parse") 334,385 ops/sec ±1.03% (97 runs sampled) require("url").parse 140,836 ops/sec ±1.26% (94 runs sampled) require("url-parse-as-address") 135,691 ops/sec ±0.94% (95 runs sampled) 
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