williambelle / crop-url

Truncate a url so that it doesn't appear so long visually.

crop-url

Truncate a url so that it doesn't appear so long visually.

Install

npm i crop-url

Usage

const cropUrl = require('crop-url');

let url = cropUrl('http://www.foobar.com/abc/def/ghi/index.html', 26);
console.log(url) //=> 'foobar.com/…/index.html'

url = cropUrl('https://www.foobar.com/abc/def/ghi/jkl/', 26);
console.log(url) //=> 'foobar.com/abc/def/…/jkl/'

url = cropUrl('http://www.foobar.com/abc/def/ghi/jkl/', 1);
console.log(url) //=> 'foobar.com/…/jkl/'

url = cropUrl('http://www.foobar.com/search/?q=foo&page=bar', 35);
console.log(url) //=> 'foobar.com/search/?q=foo&page=bar'

url = cropUrl('http://www.foobar.com/search/?q=foo&page=bar', 20);
console.log(url) //=> 'foobar.com/…/?q=foo…'

url = cropUrl('http://www.foobar.com/search/?q=foo&page=bar', 12);
console.log(url) //=> 'foobar.com/…/?…'

url = cropUrl('http://www.foobar.com/foo-bar-foo-bar.html', 12);
console.log(url) //=> 'foobar.com/foo…'

Contributing

Contributions are always welcome.

See Contributing.

Developer

• William Belle

License

The MIT License (MIT)