Validate URL

Parse an absolute URL and display its protocol, host, path, query, and fragment.

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How it works

The browser URL parser resolves the input into protocol, hostname, port, pathname, query, and fragment components. Only http, https, ftp, and ftps are valid here; other parseable schemes return a warning state.

  • WHATWG parsing matches browser behavior.
  • The allowlist covers common web and file-transfer links.

Worked example

Valid URL
Validate a well-formed HTTPS URL with path and query
Input
											https://api.example.com/v2/users?active=true&page=1
Output
												Valid URL
Protocol: https:
Host: api.example.com
Path: /v2/users
Query: ?active=true&page=1

When to use this

Callback forms, crawlers, and documentation tools inspect URLs.

Edge cases

  • Credentials or ports still parse and are exposed as components.
  • javascript: and data: can parse but are warned as uncommon schemes.
  • A relative path fails because no base URL is supplied.

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