Validating a URL in Node.js

Question

I want to validate a URL of the types:

• www.google.com
• http://www.google.com
• google.com

Answer 1

The "valid-url" npm package did not work for me. It returned valid, for an invalid url. What worked for me was "url-exists"

const urlExists = require("url-exists");

urlExists(myurl, function(err, exists) {
  if (exists) {
    res.send('Good URL');
  } else {
    res.send('Bad URL');
  }
});