How to extract the hostname portion of a URL in JavaScript

javascript hostname
Dustin Getz picture Dustin Getz · Sep 2, 2009 · Viewed 419.8k times · Source

Is there a really easy way to start from a full URL:

document.location.href = "http://aaa.bbb.ccc.com/asdf/asdf/sadf.aspx?blah"

And extract just the host part:

aaa.bbb.ccc.com

There's gotta be a JavaScript function that does this reliably, but I can't find it.

Answer

Amin Saqi picture Amin Saqi · Jun 27, 2013

suppose that you have a page with this address: http://sub.domain.com/virtualPath/page.htm. use the following in page code to achive those results:

  • window.location.host : you'll get sub.domain.com:8080 or sub.domain.com:80
  • window.location.hostname : you'll get sub.domain.com
  • window.location.protocol : you'll get http:
  • window.location.port : you'll get 8080 or 80
  • window.location.pathname : you'll get /virtualPath
  • window.location.origin : you'll get http://sub.domain.com *****

Update: about the .origin

***** As the ref states, browser compatibility for window.location.origin is not clear. I've checked it in chrome and it returned http://sub.domain.com:port if the port is anything but 80, and http://sub.domain.com if the port is 80.

Special thanks to @torazaburo for mentioning that to me.

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