Get the current url but without the http:// part bookmarklet!

Question

Hi!

Guys I have a question, hoping you can help me out with this one. I have a bookmarklet;

javascript:q=(document.location.href);void(open('http://other.example.com/search.php?search='+location.href,'_self ','resizable,location,menubar,toolbar,scrollbars,status'));

which takes URL of the current webpage and search for it in another website. When I use this bookmarklet it takes the whole URL including http:// and searches for it. But now I would like to change this bookmarklet so it will take only the www.example.com or just example.com (without http://) and search for this url. Is it possible to do this and can you please help me with this one?

Thank you!

Answer 1

This should do it

location.href.replace(/https?:\/\//i, "")

Answer 2

Use document.location.host instead of document.location.href. That contains only the host name and not the full URL.

Answer 3

Do you have control over website.com other.example.com? This should probably be done on the server side.

In which case:

preg_replace("/^https?:\/\/(.+)$/i","\\1", $url);

should work. Or, you could use str_replace(...), but be aware that that might strip 'http://' from somewhere inside the URL:

str_replace(array('http://','https://'), '', $url);

EDIT: or, if you just want the host name, you could try parse_url(...)?

Answer 4

Using javascript replace via regex matching:

javascript:q=(document.location.href.replace(/(https?|file):\/\//,''));void(open('http://website.com/search.php?search='+q,'_self ','resizable,location,menubar,toolbar,scrollbars,status'));

Replace (https?|file) with your choice, e.g. ftp, gopher, telnet etc.