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file-uri-to-path
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file: URI to a file pathAccepts a file: URI and returns a regular file path suitable for use with the
fs module functions.
Install with npm:
$ npm install file-uri-to-path
var uri2path = require('file-uri-to-path');
uri2path('file://localhost/c|/WINDOWS/clock.avi');
// "c:\\WINDOWS\\clock.avi"
uri2path('file:///c|/WINDOWS/clock.avi');
// "c:\\WINDOWS\\clock.avi"
uri2path('file://localhost/c:/WINDOWS/clock.avi');
// "c:\\WINDOWS\\clock.avi"
uri2path('file://hostname/path/to/the%20file.txt');
// "\\\\hostname\\path\\to\\the file.txt"
uri2path('file:///c:/path/to/the%20file.txt');
// "c:\\path\\to\\the file.txt"
(The MIT License)
Copyright (c) 2014 Nathan Rajlich <nathan@tootallnate.net>
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Similar to file-uri-to-path, this package is used to convert URLs to file system paths. It might have different handling for edge cases or support different URL schemes.
FAQs
Convert a file: URI to a file path
The npm package file-uri-to-path receives a total of 18,583,348 weekly downloads. As such, file-uri-to-path popularity was classified as popular.
We found that file-uri-to-path demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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