parse-link-header

Parses a link header and returns paging information for each contained link.

var parse = require('parse-link-header');

var linkHeader =
  '<https://api.github.com/user/9287/repos?page=3&per_page=100>; rel="next", ' +
  '<https://api.github.com/user/9287/repos?page=1&per_page=100>; rel="prev"; pet="cat", ' +
  '<https://api.github.com/user/9287/repos?page=5&per_page=100>; rel="last"'

var parsed = parse(linkHeader);
console.log(parsed);

{ next:
   { page: '3',
     per_page: '100',
     rel: 'next',
     url: 'https://api.github.com/user/9287/repos?page=3&per_page=100' },
  prev:
   { page: '1',
     per_page: '100',
     rel: 'prev',
     pet: 'cat',
     url: 'https://api.github.com/user/9287/repos?page=1&per_page=100' },
  last:
   { page: '5',
     per_page: '100',
     rel: 'last',
     url: 'https://api.github.com/user/9287/repos?page=5&per_page=100' } }

Installation

npm install parse-link-header

API

parseLinkHeader(linkHeader : String) : Object

Parses the given link header containing web links and returns an object keyed by the rel property that contains information about each link.

Formatting a link header

The purpose of this module it´s to parse the link header information. To format an object generated by this module back to the link header string use the format-link-header module.

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2.0.0 ... latest (3 years ago)

parse-link-header

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