Getting parts of a URL with JavaScript

Question

I'm currently on www.google.com/folder/folder/archive.php and using window.location to determine that. I actually want to target /archive.php, and nothing else.

Is there something that could achieve that?

window.location.host = "www.google.com"

window.location.pathname = "folder/folder/archive.php"

???? = "/archive.php

You should be able to easily extract that form the pathname... :) — techfoobar, Nov 29 '13 at 11:23
"I'm currently on `www.google.com/folder/folder/archive.php`" I doubt that. [`example.com`](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606) is reserved for exactly this reason :) — Gareth, Nov 29 '13 at 11:28
possible duplicate of [How to extract the filename of URL in JavaScript?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6543242/how-to-extract-the-filename-of-url-in-javascript) — Felix Kling, Nov 29 '13 at 11:34

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 29 '13 at 11:45

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Try this :)

console.log(window.location.href.split('/').pop())

answered Nov 29 '13 at 11:45

MIdhun Krishna

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I was thinking this too, but what if I have a URL like: example.com/http ://google.com/otherPage.js how can I just split up the different parts? – B''H Bi'ezras -- Boruch Hashem Mar 13 '19 at 09:33
or even example.com/index.php?page=http: //google.com – B''H Bi'ezras -- Boruch Hashem Mar 13 '19 at 09:34

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 29 '13 at 11:27

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You need to split the array and get the last portion. You can do it like this

var a = window.location.pathname.split("/");
console.log(a[a.length - 1]);

answered Nov 29 '13 at 11:27

Zeeshan Abbas

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Thanks. If I were to just do `console.log(a[-1]);`, how come it says `undefined` in the console? – Nov 29 '13 at 11:40
@Prateek: my solution is independent of the size of the URL. The objective was to achieve the last part of the URL. – Zeeshan Abbas Nov 29 '13 at 11:46

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 29 '13 at 11:24

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alert("/"+window.location.pathname.split("/")[2] );

answered Nov 29 '13 at 11:24

Rituraj ratan

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 29 '13 at 11:31

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Try this

var path = "www.google.com/folder/folder/archive.php";
console.log(path.substring(path.lastIndexOf('/')+1));

answered Nov 29 '13 at 11:31

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score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Mar 21 '17 at 16:13

This will select part from the last '/'.

var last =

window.location.toString().substr(window.location.toString().lastIndexOf('/'));

last will always be the path no matter which ever page you run this script.

eg: http://www.example.com/../../../../../test.html

The output will be test.html

http:// - Protocol
www - Server-Name (subdomain)
example - Second Level Domain (SLD)
com - Top Level Domain (TLD)
/test.html - Path

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