text: # parseurl
  
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  Parse a URL with memoization.
  
  ## Install
  
  ```bash
  $ npm install parseurl
  ```
  
  ## API
  
  ```js
  var parseurl = require('parseurl')
  ```
  
  ### parseurl(req)
  
  Parse the URL of the given request object (looks at the `req.url` property)
  and return the result. The result is the same as `url.parse` in Node.js core.
  Calling this function multiple times on the same `req` where `req.url` does
  not change will return a cached parsed object, rather than parsing again.
  
  ### parseurl.original(req)
  
  Parse the original URL of the given request object and return the result.
  This works by trying to parse `req.originalUrl` if it is a string, otherwise
  parses `req.url`. The result is the same as `url.parse` in Node.js core.
  Calling this function multiple times on the same `req` where `req.originalUrl`
  does not change will return a cached parsed object, rather than parsing again.
  
  ## Benchmark
  
  ```bash
  $ npm run-script bench
  
  > parseurl@1.3.0 bench nodejs-parseurl
  > node benchmark/index.js
  
  > node benchmark/fullurl.js
  
    Parsing URL "http://localhost:8888/foo/bar?user=tj&pet=fluffy"
  
    1 test completed.
    2 tests completed.
    3 tests completed.
  
    fasturl   x 1,290,780 ops/sec ±0.46% (195 runs sampled)
    nativeurl x    56,401 ops/sec ±0.22% (196 runs sampled)
    parseurl  x    55,231 ops/sec ±0.22% (194 runs sampled)
  
  > node benchmark/pathquery.js
  
    Parsing URL "/foo/bar?user=tj&pet=fluffy"
  
    1 test completed.
    2 tests completed.
    3 tests completed.
  
    fasturl   x 1,986,668 ops/sec ±0.27% (190 runs sampled)
    nativeurl x    98,740 ops/sec ±0.21% (195 runs sampled)
    parseurl  x 2,628,171 ops/sec ±0.36% (195 runs sampled)
  
  > node benchmark/samerequest.js
  
    Parsing URL "/foo/bar?user=tj&pet=fluffy" on same request object
  
    1 test completed.
    2 tests completed.
    3 tests completed.
  
    fasturl   x  2,184,468 ops/sec ±0.40% (194 runs sampled)
    nativeurl x     99,437 ops/sec ±0.71% (194 runs sampled)
    parseurl  x 10,498,005 ops/sec ±0.61% (186 runs sampled)
  
  > node benchmark/simplepath.js
  
    Parsing URL "/foo/bar"
  
    1 test completed.
    2 tests completed.
    3 tests completed.
  
    fasturl   x 4,535,825 ops/sec ±0.27% (191 runs sampled)
    nativeurl x    98,769 ops/sec ±0.54% (191 runs sampled)
    parseurl  x 4,164,865 ops/sec ±0.34% (192 runs sampled)
  
  > node benchmark/slash.js
  
    Parsing URL "/"
  
    1 test completed.
    2 tests completed.
    3 tests completed.
  
    fasturl   x 4,908,405 ops/sec ±0.42% (191 runs sampled)
    nativeurl x   100,945 ops/sec ±0.59% (188 runs sampled)
    parseurl  x 4,333,208 ops/sec ±0.27% (194 runs sampled)
  ```
  
  ## License
  
    [MIT](LICENSE)
  