How to decode a URL in nodejs?

Question

I am trying to decode a URL and also format it with URL module in nodejs.

const url = require('url');

const oldUrl = "https://tut.by/ad=%24%7Baccount.domain%7D";
const newUrl = url.parse(oldUrl, true).format();

Here is the returned value for newUrl

{ 
   auth: null
   hash: null
   host: "tut.by"
   hostname: "tut.by"
   href: "https://tut.by/?ad=%24%7Baccount.domain%7D"
   path: "/?ad=%24%7Baccount.domain%7D"
   pathname: "/"
   port: null
   protocol: "https:"
   query: {ad: "${account.domain}"}
   search: "?ad=%24%7Baccount.domain%7D"
   slashes: true 
}

When I finally format it like this:

const formattedUrl = newUrl.format();

It returned:

https://tut.by/?ad=%24%7Baccount.domain%7D

But the expected result is:

https://tut.by/?ad=${account.domain}

How to handle this situation so it returns the correctly decoded URL?

1565986223 · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-01 14:54:03Z

5

Try this

decodeURIComponent(newUrl);

console.log(decodeURIComponent('https://tut.by/?ad=%24%7Baccount.domain%7D'))

edited May 1, 2019 at 14:54

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