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Finds different components of a given URL, e.g. its domain name, directory path, or full path.

The safe option in some the functions indicates whether the return value should be transformed in order to be safely used as folder and file names.

Summary

Functions

Finds the base path of a given page.

Finds the domain name with port number (e.g. example.org:8080).

Finds the full path of a given page.

Finds the URL scheme (e.g. https://).

Functions

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find_base_path(url, safe \\ true)

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Finds the base path of a given page.

Examples

iex> PathFinder.find_base_path("http://hi.hello")
"hi.hello"

iex> PathFinder.find_base_path("https://hi.hello:8888/dir/world")
"hi.hello-8888/dir"

iex> PathFinder.find_base_path("https://hi.hello:8888/dir/world", false)
"hi.hello:8888/dir"
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find_domain(url, safe \\ true)

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Finds the domain name with port number (e.g. example.org:8080).

Examples

iex> PathFinder.find_domain("http://hi.hello")
"hi.hello"

iex> PathFinder.find_domain("https://hi.hello:8888/world")
"hi.hello-8888"

iex> PathFinder.find_domain("https://hi.hello:8888/world", false)
"hi.hello:8888"
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find_path(url, safe \\ true)

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Finds the full path of a given page.

Examples

iex> PathFinder.find_path("http://hi.hello")
"hi.hello"

iex> PathFinder.find_path("https://hi.hello:8888/world")
"hi.hello-8888/world"

iex> PathFinder.find_path("https://hi.hello:8888/world", false)
"hi.hello:8888/world"

Finds the URL scheme (e.g. https://).

Examples

iex> PathFinder.find_scheme("http://hi.hello")
"http://"

iex> PathFinder.find_scheme("https://hi.hello:8888/")
"https://"