how to extract domain name without sub domain from url

[Chem Leakhina]

Hi everyone,

Does anyone know how to extract domain name without sub domain from url?

Example: http://test.domain.com => http://domain.com

Please give me an example code in ruby.

Thanks,
Leakhina
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[Justin Collins]

Chem Leakhina wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Does anyone know how to extract domain name without sub domain from url?
>
> Example: http://test.domain.com => http://domain.com
>
> Please give me an example code in ruby.
>
> Thanks,
> Leakhina
>

This is actually quite difficult, because there is a multitude of
possible second-level domains which can be used (such as .co.uk), and
they are not really standardized. Just picking one at random, the
country of Jordan has .com.jo, .net.jo, .gov.jo, .edu.jo, .org.jo,
mil.jo, .name.jo, and .sch.jo.

If one were to ignore such things, then it becomes easier:

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'uri'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> u = URI.parse "http://test.domain.com/"
=> #<URI::HTTP:0xb7bbf848 URL:http://test.domain.com/>
irb(main):003:0> u.host
=> "test.domain.com"
irb(main):004:0> u.host.split(".")[-2,2]
=> ["domain", "com"]
irb(main):005:0> u.host.split(".")[-2,2].join(".")
=> "domain.com"

However, as mentioned above, there are a lot of domains this will not
work for.

-Justin

[Robert Klemme]

2009/6/23 Justin Collins <justin...@ucla.edu>:

> Chem Leakhina wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Does anyone know how to extract domain name without sub domain from url?
>>
>> Example: http://test.domain.com => http://domain.com
>>
>> Please give me an example code in ruby.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Leakhina
>>
>
> This is actually quite difficult, because there is a multitude of possible
> second-level domains which can be used (such as .co.uk), and they are not
> really standardized. Just picking one at random, the country of Jordan has

> .com.jo, .net.jo, .gov.jo, .edu.jo, .org.jo, .mil.jo, .name.jo, and .sch.jo.

>
> If one were to ignore such things, then it becomes easier:
>
> $ irb
> irb(main):001:0> require 'uri'
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> u = URI.parse "http://test.domain.com/"
> => #<URI::HTTP:0xb7bbf848 URL:http://test.domain.com/>
> irb(main):003:0> u.host
> => "test.domain.com"
> irb(main):004:0> u.host.split(".")[-2,2]
> => ["domain", "com"]
> irb(main):005:0> u.host.split(".")[-2,2].join(".")
> => "domain.com"
>
>
> However, as mentioned above, there are a lot of domains this will not work
> for.

We can get better results by ignoring particular known domain prefixes
such as "ftp" and "www":

# this works with 1.8 and 1.9
%w{
www.google.com
google.co.uk
www.google.co.uk
foo.bar
}.each do |domain|
dom = domain.sub(/^(?:www|ftp)\./, '')[/^[^.]+/]
printf "%p -> %p\n", domain, dom
# alternative
dom = domain[/^(?:(?:ftp|www)\.)?([^.]+)/, 1]
printf "%p -> %p\n", domain, dom
end

Kind regards

robert

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