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URLPattern

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The URLPattern interface of the URL Pattern API matches URLs or parts of URLs against a pattern. The pattern can contain capturing groups that extract parts of the matched URL.

More information about the syntax of patterns can be found on the API overview page: URL Pattern API.

Constructor

  • URLPattern()
    • : Returns a new URLPattern object based on the given pattern and base URL.

Instance properties

  • hash Read only
    • : A string containing a pattern to match the hash part of a URL.
  • hasRegExpGroups Read only
  • hostname Read only
    • : A string containing a pattern to match the hostname part of a URL.
  • password Read only
    • : A string containing a pattern to match the password part of a URL.
  • pathname Read only
    • : A string containing a pattern to match the pathname part of a URL.
  • port Read only
    • : A string containing a pattern to match the port part of a URL.
  • protocol Read only
    • : A string containing a pattern to match the protocol part of a URL.
  • search Read only
    • : A string containing a pattern to match the search part of a URL.
  • username Read only
    • : A string containing a pattern to match the username part of a URL.

Instance methods

  • exec()
    • : Returns an object with the matched parts of the URL or null if the URL does not match.
  • test()
    • : Returns true if the URL matches the given pattern, false otherwise.

Specifications

SpecificationsStandards references are available on the canonical MDN page.

Browser compatibility

Browser compatibilityCompatibility data is available on the canonical MDN page.

See also

  • A polyfill of URLPattern is available on GitHub
  • The pattern syntax used by URLPattern is similar to the syntax used by path-to-regexp