[javascript] Node.js: get path from the request

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);
});
};

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', '', '' ]

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);

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

Based on @epegzz suggestion for the regex.

( url ) => {
  return url.match('^[^?]*')[0].split('/').slice(1)
}

returns an array with paths.

A more modern solution that utilises the URL WebAPI:

(req, res) => {
  const { pathname } = new URL(req.url || '', `https://${req.headers.host}`)
}

simply call req.url. that should do the work. you'll get something like /something?bla=foo