Extract hostname name from string

Question

I would like to match just the root of a URL and not the whole URL from a text string. Given:

http://www.youtube.co         


        

Answer 1

All url properties, no dependencies, no JQuery, easy to understand

This solution gives your answer plus additional properties. No JQuery or other dependencies required, paste and go.

Usage

getUrlParts("https://news.google.com/news/headlines/technology.html?ned=us&hl=en")

Output

{
  "origin": "https://news.google.com",
  "domain": "news.google.com",
  "subdomain": "news",
  "domainroot": "google.com",
  "domainpath": "news.google.com/news/headlines",
  "tld": ".com",
  "path": "news/headlines/technology.html",
  "query": "ned=us&hl=en",
  "protocol": "https",
  "port": 443,
  "parts": [
    "news",
    "google",
    "com"
  ],
  "segments": [
    "news",
    "headlines",
    "technology.html"
  ],
  "params": [
    {
      "key": "ned",
      "val": "us"
    },
    {
      "key": "hl",
      "val": "en"
    }
  ]
}

Code
The code is designed to be easy to understand rather than super fast. It can be called easily 100 times per second, so it's great for front end or a few server usages, but not for high volume throughput.

function getUrlParts(fullyQualifiedUrl) {
    var url = {},
        tempProtocol
    var a = document.createElement('a')
    // if doesn't start with something like https:// it's not a url, but try to work around that
    if (fullyQualifiedUrl.indexOf('://') == -1) {
        tempProtocol = 'https://'
        a.href = tempProtocol + fullyQualifiedUrl
    } else
        a.href = fullyQualifiedUrl
    var parts = a.hostname.split('.')
    url.origin = tempProtocol ? "" : a.origin
    url.domain = a.hostname
    url.subdomain = parts[0]
    url.domainroot = ''
    url.domainpath = ''
    url.tld = '.' + parts[parts.length - 1]
    url.path = a.pathname.substring(1)
    url.query = a.search.substr(1)
    url.protocol = tempProtocol ? "" : a.protocol.substr(0, a.protocol.length - 1)
    url.port = tempProtocol ? "" : a.port ? a.port : a.protocol === 'http:' ? 80 : a.protocol === 'https:' ? 443 : a.port
    url.parts = parts
    url.segments = a.pathname === '/' ? [] : a.pathname.split('/').slice(1)
    url.params = url.query === '' ? [] : url.query.split('&')
    for (var j = 0; j < url.params.length; j++) {
        var param = url.params[j];
        var keyval = param.split('=')
        url.params[j] = {
            'key': keyval[0],
            'val': keyval[1]
        }
    }
    // domainroot
    if (parts.length > 2) {
        url.domainroot = parts[parts.length - 2] + '.' + parts[parts.length - 1];
        // check for country code top level domain
        if (parts[parts.length - 1].length == 2 && parts[parts.length - 1].length == 2)
            url.domainroot = parts[parts.length - 3] + '.' + url.domainroot;
    }
    // domainpath (domain+path without filenames) 
    if (url.segments.length > 0) {
        var lastSegment = url.segments[url.segments.length - 1]
        var endsWithFile = lastSegment.indexOf('.') != -1
        if (endsWithFile) {
            var fileSegment = url.path.indexOf(lastSegment)
            var pathNoFile = url.path.substr(0, fileSegment - 1)
            url.domainpath = url.domain
            if (pathNoFile)
                url.domainpath = url.domainpath + '/' + pathNoFile
        } else
            url.domainpath = url.domain + '/' + url.path
    } else
        url.domainpath = url.domain
    return url
}