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URL Parse

Splits a web address into its parts: scheme, host, port, path, query and fragment. For example, pull the domain out of referrer links.

Also known as: Extract domain

How it works

Pick the URL column; the Output prefix defaults to the column name plus an underscore. Six columns are appended: scheme, host, port, path, query and fragment, each null when that part is absent. A value that is not a URL (it contains whitespace, or has a port outside 0 to 65535) gives null in every part and the node reports how many such rows it saw. Percent-encoding is kept as written, and host:port without a scheme is read as an authority when the host is localhost or contains a dot, such as example.com:8080. A parsed column whose name the input already has replaces that column, so re-running on the output does not duplicate columns.

Inputs and outputs

Settings

{
  column: string
  prefix?: string
}

Example

Web analytics rows carry a referrer column and you want traffic by domain. Parse referrer with the default prefix and group by referrer_host.

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