Skip to main content

URL

A URL variable holds a parsed JS URL object rather than a plain string — so its .hostname, .pathname, .searchParams, and so on are available directly, without parsing the string yourself every time you use it. The default-value text you type into the Variables panel must be a syntactically valid URL; anything that isn't (checked with JavaScript's own URL parser) is rejected at declaration time with a clear message.

Compiles to​

let endpoint = new URL("https://api.example.com");

Typing https://api.example.com into the default-value field is enough — the new URL(...) wrapping happens for you at compile time.

Get Variable / Set Variable​

A Get endpoint node reads it back; a Set endpoint node assigns a new value and continues:

Get Variable

Set Variable

The Set node's "Value" pin takes the same URL text as the default-value field — an unwired literal there is validated and wrapped in new URL(...) the exact same way.

Use case​

  • Configurable upstream API base: Declare the base URL of a service you call once, then read .hostname, .pathname, or .searchParams off it directly wherever it's needed, instead of gluing strings together or re-parsing the same URL repeatedly.