Validating a URL in Node.js

Question

I want to validate a URL of the types:

• www.google.com
• http://www.google.com
• google.com

Answer 1

There's a package called valid-url

var validUrl = require('valid-url');

var url = "http://bla.com"
if (validUrl.isUri(url)){
    console.log('Looks like an URI');
} 
else {
    console.log('Not a URI');
}

Installation:

npm install valid-url --save

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