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The range-parser package is a utility for parsing HTTP range header fields. It's useful for handling requests for specific ranges of data, which is particularly relevant for serving large files in smaller chunks, such as videos or large documents.
Parse Range Header
This feature allows you to parse the 'Range' header from HTTP requests. It takes the size of the file and the range header as arguments and returns an array of ranges, or an error code if the range is unsatisfiable or syntactically invalid.
const rangeParser = require('range-parser');
const rangeHeader = 'bytes=0-499';
const fileSize = 1000;
const parsedRanges = rangeParser(fileSize, rangeHeader);
The http-range package is similar to range-parser in that it also parses HTTP range headers. However, it provides a more high-level API and includes additional features for creating and manipulating ranges.
The accept-ranges package is designed to parse the Accept-Ranges header in HTTP. While it serves a different purpose from range-parser, it is related in the context of HTTP range requests and responses.
Range header field parser.
assert(-1 == parse(200, 'bytes=500-20'));
assert(-2 == parse(200, 'bytes=malformed'));
parse(200, 'bytes=0-499').should.eql(arr('bytes', [{ start: 0, end: 199 }]));
parse(1000, 'bytes=0-499').should.eql(arr('bytes', [{ start: 0, end: 499 }]));
parse(1000, 'bytes=40-80').should.eql(arr('bytes', [{ start: 40, end: 80 }]));
parse(1000, 'bytes=-500').should.eql(arr('bytes', [{ start: 500, end: 999 }]));
parse(1000, 'bytes=-400').should.eql(arr('bytes', [{ start: 600, end: 999 }]));
parse(1000, 'bytes=500-').should.eql(arr('bytes', [{ start: 500, end: 999 }]));
parse(1000, 'bytes=400-').should.eql(arr('bytes', [{ start: 400, end: 999 }]));
parse(1000, 'bytes=0-0').should.eql(arr('bytes', [{ start: 0, end: 0 }]));
parse(1000, 'bytes=-1').should.eql(arr('bytes', [{ start: 999, end: 999 }]));
parse(1000, 'items=0-5').should.eql(arr('items', [{ start: 0, end: 5 }]));
parse(1000, 'bytes=40-80,-1').should.eql(arr('bytes', [{ start: 40, end: 80 }, { start: 999, end: 999 }]));
$ npm install range-parser
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Range header field string parser
The npm package range-parser receives a total of 25,593,758 weekly downloads. As such, range-parser popularity was classified as popular.
We found that range-parser demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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