---
id: parseurl
title: ParseURL
summary: A small MediaWiki extension that exposes PHP’s parse_url, so a wiki page can pull the host, path, or query out of a URL.
collection: Historical projects
status: retired
url: https://github.com/jthingelstad/ParseURL
started: 2013-07-15
topics:
  - mediawiki
sources:
  - kind: github
    repository: jthingelstad/ParseURL
    role: implementation
connections: []
page: https://thingelstad.xyz/things/parseurl/
---

# ParseURL

A small MediaWiki extension that exposes PHP’s parse_url, so a wiki page can pull the host, path, or query out of a URL.

ParseURL adds two parser functions to MediaWiki. `{{#parseurl:}}` returns one part of a URL, such as its scheme, host, path, query, or fragment, using PHP’s [parse_url](https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-url.php) function. `{{#parseurlquery:}}` returns the value of a single query parameter, such as the video ID in a YouTube link.

I wrote it on July 15, 2013 and posted that I had “[made a super simple MediaWiki extension for parsing URLs](https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/07/15/made-a-super.html).” All three commits in the repository are from that day. The repository is archived.