JavaScript regex to capture a URL without query string

Jan 13, 2023

Learn how to use a JavaScript regular expression to capture a URL without its query string parameters, removing anything after the ? or # symbol.

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I had the need to capture a URL without query parameters.

For both http and https links.

(Want to tweak it for your case? Paste it into my regex tester to see the matches live.)

Here’s the regex I used:

/^(http[^?#]+).*/gm

Here’s an example:

const regex = /^(http[^?#]+).*/gm
const result = regex.exec("https://test.com?test=2")
console.log(result)

/*
[ 'https://test.com?test=2', 
'https://test.com', 
index: 0, 
input: 'https://test.com?test=2', 
groups: undefined ]
*/

JavaScript code editor showing regex execution with https://test.com URL and console output array result

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