url-dirname-normalizer

Normalize URLs to be valid filesystem paths for archiving web pages and their assets

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Usage

dirnameNormalizer

The default exported function is; dirnameNormalizer.

import dirnameNormalizer from 'url-dirname-normalizer'

// HTML Source document URL from where the asset is embedded
// Ignore document origin if resource has full URL, protocol relative, non TLS
const sourceDocument =
  'http://example.org/@ausername/some-lengthy-string-ending-with-a-hash-1a2d8a61510'

/**
 * Filesystem path where to write files to
 */
dirnameNormalizer(sourceDocument)
// > "example.org/ausername/some-lengthy-string-ending-with-a-hash"

normalizer

Alongside the default export, there is also a normalizer with a few methods.

Refer to notes in pathName in normalizer/path-name.ts and searchParams in normalizer/search-params.ts

import { normalizer } from 'url-dirname-normalizer'
const examplePathName = 'http://www.example.org/fOo/Bar/bAAz.html'
normalizer.pathName(examplePathName)
// > "/foo/bar/baaz"

const exampleSearchParams = 'http://example.org/foo?zulu=please&bar=bazz&buzz'
normalizer.searchParams(exampleSearchParams)
// > "/bar/bazz/zulu/please"