Parse URL with Javascript [duplicate]

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How do I parse a URL into hostname and path in javascript?

I’m trying to parse the url of the page. For example the current page is location.href.

So the main page of my blog, if I use alert(location.href); it will return “http://diaryofthedead.co.cc/” in an alert box. If I use alert(location.href); on page two of my blog, it will return “http://diaryofthedead.co.cc/page/2” in an alert box. Is there any way to parse the URL to get the number at the end. Does anyone know how I could do that? Could I use wildcard or something, to do something like: location.href+”page/”+*; While * is equal to whatever follows “page/”, and then turn * into a variable?

Answer 1

You can use

var pagenum = location.pathname.match(/\/page\/(.*)/)[1];

It will extract anything past '/page/' in your URL;

Answer 2

Checkout this package jsuri

Or keep it simple http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/parsing-urls-with-the-dom/