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URLParse["url"]

takes a well-formed URL and gives an association whose values correspond to the components of the URL.

URLParse["url","component"]

returns only the specified component.

URLParse["url",{component1,component2,…}]

returns only the specified component list.

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URLParse

URLParse["url"]

takes a well-formed URL and gives an association whose values correspond to the components of the URL.

URLParse["url","component"]

returns only the specified component.

URLParse["url",{component1,component2,…}]

returns only the specified component list.

Details and Options

  • Possible components extracted by URLParse include:
  • "Scheme"URL scheme (appearing at the beginning)
    "User"user information
    "Domain"domain name or host
    "Port"port number (appearing after :)
    "Path"path list (separated by /)
    "PathString"complete path as a string
    "AbsoluteDomain"complete domain as a string, including scheme
    "AbsolutePath"complete path as a string, including scheme and domain
    "Query"list of parameter-value pairs (appearing after ?)
    "QueryString"complete query string
    "Fragment"fragment specification (appearing after #)
  • If a particular component is not present in the URL, the value returned for that component is None.
  • A "Port" component, if present, is returned as an integer.
  • A trailing / in the path component of the URL is represented by a last element "" in the "Path" component returned by URLParse.
  • URLParse["url"] returns an Association containing the following sequence of keys: "Scheme", "User", "Domain", "Port", "Path", "Query", "Fragment".
  • URLParse[{"url1","url2",…},…] gives results for a list of URLs.
  • URLParse has option CharacterEncoding, which specifies the encoding of character codes to assume in the URL. The default is "UTF-8".
  • URLParse[URL["url"],…] and URLParse[CloudObject["url"],…] also supported.

Examples

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Basic Examples  (3)

Parse a URL into its components:

Wolfram Language code: URLParse["http://www.wolfram.com/solutions"]

Parse only path and query:

Wolfram Language code: URLParse["http://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=100+USD+in+EUR", {"Path", "Query"}]

URLParse automatically threads over lists:

Wolfram Language code: URLParse[{"http://www.wolfram.com", "http://www.wolframalpha.com"}]

Scope  (5)

Find the domain of a URL:

Wolfram Language code: URLParse["http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples", "Domain"]

Get the user information from a generic URL:

Wolfram Language code: URLParse["ssh://user:pass@host:port/base2?par1=val1#fragment", "User"]

The path is returned as a list:

Wolfram Language code: URLParse["http://www.wolfram.com/solutions/industry/astronomy", "Path"]

The full path string can be obtained with "PathString":

Wolfram Language code: URLParse["http://www.wolfram.com/solutions/industry/astronomy", "PathString"]

The query is returned as a decoded list of rules:

Wolfram Language code: URLParse["http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=tom+brady+vs+peyton+manning+touchdowns&a=_*NFLPassingTouchdowns-", "Query"]

The original query string can be obtained with "QueryString":

Wolfram Language code: URLParse["http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=tom+brady+vs+peyton+manning+touchdowns&a=_*NFLPassingTouchdowns-", "QueryString"]

Separating "AbsolutePath" from "Query":

Wolfram Language code: URLParse["http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=tom+brady+vs+peyton+manning+touchdowns&a=_*NFLPassingTouchdowns-", {"AbsolutePath", "Query"}]

URL or CloudObject can be used:

Wolfram Language code: URLParse[CloudObject[], "PathString"]
Wolfram Language code: URLParse[URL["http://www.wolfram.com"], "Domain"]
Wolfram Research (2014), URLParse, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/URLParse.html (updated 2016).

Text

Wolfram Research (2014), URLParse, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/URLParse.html (updated 2016).

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2014. "URLParse." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2016. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/URLParse.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2014). URLParse. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/URLParse.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2026_urlparse, author="Wolfram Research", title="{URLParse}", year="2016", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/URLParse.html}", note=[Accessed: 13-June-2026]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2026_urlparse, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={URLParse}, year={2016}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/URLParse.html}, note=[Accessed: 13-June-2026]}