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referral-parser
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####Parse a referral url into useful information
const Referral = require('referral-parser');
let refObj = new Referral('http://www.google.co.uk/?q=bbc+news');
{
"type": "search",
"name": "Google",
"search": "bbc news",
"host": "www.google.co.uk"
}
$ npm install referral-parser
Two of the biggest analytics companies have their own open source data sets of referring websites. Overtime these have become quite separated and no longer aligned meaning you choose one or the other. Referral Parser combines these two sets of data, filters them and makes them available as a single list.
We can then use this dataset, feed in our referral string and get some useful information back.
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Parse a referral url into useful information
The npm package referral-parser receives a total of 75 weekly downloads. As such, referral-parser popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that referral-parser 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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