let url = require('url'); let adr = 'http://localhost:8080/default.htm?year=2017&month=february'; //Parse the address: let q = url.parse(adr, true); /*The parse method returns an object containing url properties*/ console.log(q.host); console.log(q.pathname); console.log(q.search); /*The query property returns an object with all the querystring parameters as properties:*/ let qdata = q.query; console.log(qdata.month);