Javascript/jQuery: determine given URL's domain: 'youtube.com' or 'vimeo.com'?

Question

I need to process URLs with JS and find out if they belong to youtube.com, vimeo.com or none of them. How do I do that?

I found this question How to get Domain name from URL using jquery..?, but it keeps 'http://www.' part if it's included in the URL.

EDIT: People suggesting the indexOf solution: what if there's a youtube.com inside the URL path? Is this even possible? As in www.example.com/?article=why_youtube.com_is_the_best? This question Can . (period) be part of the path part of an URL? seems to indicate that this is a valid URL.

Whats wrong with indexOf() You can just check if(url.indexOf('youtube.com')){_youtube here_}elseif(url.indexOf('vimeon.com')){_vimeo there_}else{_none of them_} ? — Dmitry Kudryavtsev
– Dmitry Kudryavtsev, Commented Jul 4, 2012 at 17:03

adeneo · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-04 18:32:31Z

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var a = 'http://www.youtube.com/somevideo/vimeo';
var b = 'http://vimeo.com/somevideo/youtube';

var test = checkUrl(b);
console.log(test); //prints Vimeo


function checkUrl(test_url) {
    var testLoc = document.createElement('a');
        testLoc.href = test_url.toLowerCase();
    url = testLoc.hostname;
    var what;
    if (url.indexOf('youtube.com') !== -1) {
        what='Youtube';
    }else if (url.indexOf('vimeo.com') !== -1) {
        what='Vimeo';
    }else{
        what='None';
    }
    return what;
}

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edited Jul 4, 2012 at 18:32

answered Jul 4, 2012 at 17:05

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Vilius Gaidelis · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-04 17:05:07Z

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    if(domain_name.indexOf("youtube.com") != -1 || domain_name.indexOf("vimeo.com") != -1){
        //...
    }

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Jashwant · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-04 17:23:35Z

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url = url.toLowerCase();

if (url.indexOf('youtube.com') > -1 || url.indexOf('vimeo.com') > -1) .....

edited Jul 4, 2012 at 17:23

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Jashwant · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-04 18:44:58Z

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var url = 'http://www.youtube.com/myurl/thevideo/';
var host = $('<a>click</a>').attr('href',url)[0].host;

if(host === 'www.youtube.com'){

}

EDIT:

If you want to remove www, use this

var host = $('<a>click</a>').attr('href',url)[0].host.replace('www.','');

edited Jul 4, 2012 at 18:44

answered Jul 4, 2012 at 17:12

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Stas Bichenko Over a year ago

This still includes the www part.

Jashwant Over a year ago

you can remove it , if you want. Updated

Stas Bichenko Over a year ago

But now it won't work if there's no www. So perhaps some www detection code needs to be implemented? This doesn't seem very efficient, although I might be wrong.

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