This is our fork of https://www.npmjs.com/package/referer-parser - a very old package.
Create a new instance of a Referer object by passing in the url you want to parse:
const { Referer } = require('referer-parser');
referer_url = 'http://www.google.com/search?q=gateway+oracle+cards+denise+linn&hl=en&client=safari';
const r = new Referer(referer_url, currect_url, referers);The r variable now holds a Referer instance. The important attributes are:
console.log(r.known); // true
console.log(r.referer); // 'Google'
console.log(r.medium); // 'search'
console.log(r.search_parameter); // 'q'
console.log(r.search_term); // 'gateway oracle cards denise linn'
console.log(r.uri); // result of require('url').parse(...)The attributes would be
console.log(r.known); // true
console.log(r.referer); // null
console.log(r.medium); // 'internal'
console.log(r.search_parameter); // null
console.log(r.search_term); // null
console.log(r.uri); // result of require('url').parse(...)Preparing Loading referers
const { loadReferersRemote } = require('referer-parser');
// Remote source
// loadReferersRemote(URL, converter=JSON.parse)
const referrers = loadReferersRemote(
'https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/snowplow-hosted-assets/third-party/referer-parser/referers-latest.json'
);
// local source
// loadReferers(refererObject)
const { loadReferers } = require('referer-parser');
const path = require('path');
const fs = require('fs');
const dataFile = fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, 'data', 'referers.json'));
const referrers = loadReferers(JSON.parse(dataFile));This package is not published to any NPM registry. It's installed directly from this repository:
{
"dependencies": {
"referer-parser": "https://github.com/WebFX-RD/nodejs-referer-parser.git"
}
}Therefore, there is no "deploy" step per se.
The only thing to keep in mind is that you should try to run npm run build:types before pushing it to remote to avoid breaking TypeScript consumers.