Node | urlObject.auth API

With the help of urlObject.auth() method, we can find the authentication parameter within the hostname. This method return the string of parameters.

Syntax : urlObject.auth()
Return : Returns the string of authentication parameter.

Example #1 : In this example with the help of urlObject.auth() method we are able to extract the username and password from the hostname.

// importing the module 'url'  
const url = require('url'); 
    
var adr =  
'https://username=jitender:password=geeks@www.geeksforgeeks.com'; 
  
// Parse the address: 
var q = url.parse(adr, true); 
  
/* The parse method returns an object containing 
 URL properties */
console.log(q.auth); 

Output :

username=jitender:password=geeks

Example #2 :

// importing the module 'url'  
const url = require('url'); 
    
var adr = 
'https://username=author:password=truegeek@www.gfg.com'; 
  
// Parse the address: 
var q = url.parse(adr, true); 
  
/* The parse method returns an object containing 
 URL properties */
console.log(q.search); 

Output :

username=author:password=truegeek

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