Node js get path from the request

Question

I have a service called  localhost 3000 returnStat  that should take a file path as parameter  For example   BackupFolder toto tata titi myfile txt    How can I test this service on my browser  How can I format this request using Express for instance   exports returnStat   function req  res     var fs   require  fs    var neededstats       var p     dirname         req params filepath   fs stat p  function err  stats        if  err            throw err            neededstats push stats mtime       neededstats push stats size       res send neededstats

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Combining solutions above when using express request:

let url=url.parse(req.originalUrl);
let page = url.parse(uri).path?url.parse(uri).path.match('^[^?]*')[0].split('/').slice(1)[0] : '';

this will handle all cases like

localhost/page
localhost:3000/page/
/page?item_id=1
localhost:3000/
localhost/

etc. Some examples:

> urls
[ 'http://localhost/page',
  'http://localhost:3000/page/',
  'http://localhost/page?item_id=1',
  'http://localhost/',
  'http://localhost:3000/',
  'http://localhost/',
  'http://localhost:3000/page#item_id=2',
  'http://localhost:3000/page?item_id=2#3',
  'http://localhost',
  'http://localhost:3000' ]
> urls.map(uri => url.parse(uri).path?url.parse(uri).path.match('^[^?]*')[0].split('/').slice(1)[0] : '' )
[ 'page', 'page', 'page', '', '', '', 'page', 'page', '', '' ]

User · Answer

req protocol           req get  host     req originalUrl   or  req protocol           req headers host   req originalUrl    I like this one as it survives from proxy server  getting the original host name

User · Answer

You can use this in app js file    var apiurl   express Router    apiurl use function req  res  next        var fullUrl   req protocol           req get  host     req originalUrl      next        app use      apiurl

User · Answer

simply call req url  that should do the work  you ll get something like  something bla foo

User · Answer

A more modern solution that utilises the URL WebAPI   req  res    gt      const   pathname     new URL req url         https     req headers host

User · Answer

var http   require  http    var url    require  url    var fs     require  fs     var neededstats        http createServer function req  res        if  req url      index html     req url                   fs readFile    index html   function err  data                res end data                     else           var p     dirname         req params filepath          fs stat p  function err  stats                if  err                    throw err                            neededstats push stats mtime               neededstats push stats size               res send neededstats                        listen 8080   0 0 0 0    console log  Server running       I have not tested your code but other things works  If you want to get the path info from request url   var url parts   url parse req url    console log url parts    console log url parts pathname     1 If you are getting the URL parameters still not able to read the file just correct your file path in my example  If you place index html in same directory as server code it would work     2 if you have big folder structure that you want to host using node then I would advise you to use some framework like expressjs  If you want raw solution to file path  var http   require  http    var url   require  url     function start     function onRequest request  response        var pathname   url parse request url  pathname      console log  Request for     pathname     received         response writeHead 200    Content-Type    text plain         response write  Hello World        response end       http createServer onRequest  listen 8888   console log  Server has started        exports start   start    source   http   www nodebeginner org

User · Answer

Based on  epegzz suggestion for the regex     url     gt      return url match           0  split      slice 1      returns an array with paths

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