README.md

parse-link-header

Parses a link header and returns paging information for each contained link.

var parse = require('parse-link-header');

var linkHeader =
  '<https://api.github.com/user/9287/repos?page=3&per_page=100>; rel="next", ' +
  '<https://api.github.com/user/9287/repos?page=1&per_page=100>; rel="prev"; pet="cat", ' +
  '<https://api.github.com/user/9287/repos?page=5&per_page=100>; rel="last"'

var parsed = parse(linkHeader);
console.log(parsed);

{ next:
   { page: '3',
     per_page: '100',
     rel: 'next',
     url: 'https://api.github.com/user/9287/repos?page=3&per_page=100' },
  prev:
   { page: '1',
     per_page: '100',
     rel: 'prev',
     pet: 'cat',
     url: 'https://api.github.com/user/9287/repos?page=1&per_page=100' },
  last:
   { page: '5',
     per_page: '100',
     rel: 'last',
     url: 'https://api.github.com/user/9287/repos?page=5&per_page=100' } }

Installation

npm install parse-link-header

API

parseLinkHeader(linkHeader : String) : Object

Parses the given link header containing web links and returns an object keyed by the rel property that contains information about each link.

Formatting a link header

The purpose of this module is to parse the link header information. To format an object generated by this module back to the link header string, use the format-link-header module.