uri.js

URI Parser (and soon to be URI encoder) in Javascript.

Changelog

Features

• Parses query strings in Javascript URI.query - URL decodes too.
• Creates window.location.query if included directly as a script and configured to do so.
• Includes function to extend objects (similar to jQuery.extend) URI.extend

Supports use as in many module situations (CommonJS, PhantomJS, RequireJS, NodeJS), or simply including as a script in the browser.

Node Installation

npm install uri.js

Usage

var query = URI.query('?key=val&key2=val2');
// { key: 'val', key2: 'val2' }
 
// As a RequireJS Module
require(['require', 'uri.js'], function(require, URI) {
    // ..
});
 
// As a node module
var URI = require('uri.js');
 
// You can also just pass a full url into URI.query
URI.query('https://user:[e-mail]:80/a/b?c=d#e');
// { c: 'd' }
 
// You can also just call URI to get a Location-like object. Currently, only supports parsing the query.
URI('https://user:[e-mail]:80/a/b?c=d#e')
// { query: {
//    c: 'd'
// }, search: '?c=d' };

In the browser

uri.js can be setup to automatically parse the current page's query string, and assign it to window.location.query. This is done using an object assigned to window.location.query_opts (Please let me know if you can think of a better way). To set it up to do so, do the following, the window.location.query_opts object should look like so.

{
    auto: {
        query: true
    }
}

You can also change which key on the location object that the parsed query string is assigned to, using the window.location.query_opts object. For example, to change the key to query_string, you would use the following object.

{
    keys: {
        query: 'query_string'
    }   
}

Last Resort

If for some reason, you're not using uri.js in the browser, and you can't use RequireJS or CommonJS, there are two more ways to use uri.js.

The first way, which isn't advised, is to fake being in the browser, by setting the window variable to an object before including uri.js in your script. uri.js will then set the uri property on this fake window variable. You should also set the location property on the fake window variable to an object, in order to prevent errors with the query string detection.

The recommended way, however, is to set a callback function that will be passed the URI object, before including uri.js. There can only be one callback, however, and it has to be named uriCallback. You would use it like so.

var URI;
var uriCallback = function(uri) {
    URI = uri;
};
 
// Include uri.js

Contributing

If you would like to contribute to uri.js, make sure you follow the standard styleguide in place across uri.js, and that every feature you write has been tested for. Do NOT increment version in package.json, or touch the dist folder. Any pull requests on the master branch will be rejected, please pull request on the dev branch.

View Contributing.md for full information

Tests

uri.js uses mocha for its tests. However, we run this via Grunt, which also does some linting for us. uri.js is setup so that you can do either of the following to start the test suite - they'll have the same effect.

grunt test
// ...

npm test
// ...

Todo

• Add query string encoding
• Protocol Parsing
• Host parsing
• Port parsing
• Hash parsing
• Path parsing