Updated implementation referer-parser that requires you to feed your own referers for parsing instead of loading from within packages.
Provides access to two methods for loading and preparing the referrers object.
This is the node.js (JavaScript) implementation of referer-parser, the library for extracting search marketing data from referer (sic) URLs.
The Javascript version of referer-parser is maintained by Martin Katrenik.
$ npm install referer-parser
Create a new instance of a Referer object by passing in the url you want to parse:
const { Referer } = require('referer-parser');
referer_url = 'http://www.google.com/search?q=gateway+oracle+cards+denise+linn&hl=en&client=safari';
const r = new Referer(referer_url, currect_url, referers);The r variable now holds a Referer instance. The important attributes are:
console.log(r.known); // true
console.log(r.referer); // 'Google'
console.log(r.medium); // 'search'
console.log(r.search_parameter); // 'q'
console.log(r.search_term); // 'gateway oracle cards denise linn'
console.log(r.uri); // result of require('url').parse(...)The attributes would be
console.log(r.known); // true
console.log(r.referer); // null
console.log(r.medium); // 'internal'
console.log(r.search_parameter); // null
console.log(r.search_term); // null
console.log(r.uri); // result of require('url').parse(...)Preparing Loading referers
const { loadReferersRemote } = require('referer-parser');
// Remote source
// loadReferersRemote(URL, converter=JSON.parse)
const referrers = loadReferersRemote(
'https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/snowplow-hosted-assets/third-party/referer-parser/referers-latest.json'
);
// local source
// loadReferers(refererObject)
const { loadReferers } = require('referer-parser');
const path = require('path');
const fs = require('fs');
const dataFile = fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, 'data', 'referers.json'));
const referrers = loadReferers(JSON.parse(dataFile));The referer-parser node.js (JavaScript) library is copyright 2013 Martin Katrenik.
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