Get the domain part of an URL string?

Question

I have an NSString with an URL, in this way:

http://someurl.com/something

How would I get someurl.com only? I\'ve already trie

Answer 1

Swift 4

And if you are using Custom url schemes say for deeplinking, for eg:

myapp:homescreen

(and don't have the "forward slashes with host name" (//www.bbc)), one solution that worked for me to extract "homescreen" is by using the index method below and then pattern matching to scrape everything after ":"

let index = absoluteString.index(absoluteString.startIndex, offsetBy: 5)
String(absoluteString[index...])

url.host or absoluteURL.host is nil in this scenario