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# URL Toolkit
Lightweight library to build an absolute URL from a base URL and a relative URL, written from [the spec (RFC 1808)](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1808). Initially part of [HLS.JS](https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js).
## Differences to JS `URL()`
The JS [URL()](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL/URL) function also lets you calculate a new URL from a base and relative one.
That uses the [URL Living Standard](https://url.spec.whatwg.org/) which is slightly different to [RFC 1808](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1808) that this library implements.
One of the key differences is that the [URL Living Standard](https://url.spec.whatwg.org/) has the concept of a ['special url'](https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#is-special) and ['special scheme'](https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#special-scheme). For these special URL's, such as a URL with the `http` scheme, they normalise them in a way that results in `http:///example.com/something` becoming `http://example.com/something`. This library does not do that and [`parseURL()`](#parseurlurl) would give you `//` as the `netLoc` and `/example.com` as the path.
## Methods
### `buildAbsoluteURL(baseURL, relativeURL, opts={})`
Build an absolute URL from a relative and base one.
```javascript
URLToolkit.buildAbsoluteURL('http://a.com/b/cd', 'e/f/../g'); // => http://a.com/b/e/g
```
If you want to ensure that the URL is treated as a relative one you should prefix it with `./`.
```javascript
URLToolkit.buildAbsoluteURL('http://a.com/b/cd', 'a:b'); // => a:b
URLToolkit.buildAbsoluteURL('http://a.com/b/cd', './a:b'); // => http://a.com/b/a:b
```
By default the paths will not be normalized unless necessary, according to the spec. However you can ensure paths are always normalized by setting the `opts.alwaysNormalize` option to `true`.
```javascript
URLToolkit.buildAbsoluteURL('http://a.com/b/cd', '/e/f/../g'); // => http://a.com/e/f/../g
URLToolkit.buildAbsoluteURL('http://a.com/b/cd', '/e/f/../g', {
alwaysNormalize: true,
}); // => http://a.com/e/g
```
### `normalizePath(url)`
Normalizes a path.
```javascript
URLToolkit.normalizePath('a/b/../c'); // => a/c
```
### `parseURL(url)`
Parse a URL into its separate components.
```javascript
URLToolkit.parseURL('http://a/b/c/d;p?q#f'); // =>
/* {
scheme: 'http:',
netLoc: '//a',
path: '/b/c/d',
params: ';p',
query: '?q',
fragment: '#f'
} */
```
### `buildURLFromParts(parts)`
Puts all the parts from `parseURL()` back together into a string.
## Example
```javascript
var URLToolkit = require('url-toolkit');
var url = URLToolkit.buildAbsoluteURL(
'https://a.com/b/cd/e.m3u8?test=1#something',
'../z.ts?abc=1#test'
);
console.log(url); // 'https://a.com/b/z.ts?abc=1#test'
```
## Browser
This can also be used in the browser thanks to [jsDelivr](https://github.com/jsdelivr/jsdelivr):
```html
```