Date: 2016jul28 Language: javaScript Credit: cyberpanther on Hacker News Q. javaScript: an easy and reliable to parse a URL A. Use an anchor tag:

let parser = document.createElement('a'); parser.href = "http://example.com:3000/pathname/?search=test#hash"; parser.protocol; // => "http:" parser.hostname; // => "example.com" parser.port; // => "3000" parser.pathname; // => "/pathname/" parser.search; // => "?search=test" parser.hash; // => "#hash" parser.host; // => "example.com:3000"

Don't use a regular expression.