Get Link Extension

Extracts the file extension from a given URL, if present.

Contributed by @PankajBaliyan

javascript
function getLinkExtension(url) {
  try {
    const path = new URL(url).pathname;
    const lastSegment = path.split("/").pop();
    return lastSegment.includes(".")
      ? lastSegment.split(".").pop().toLowerCase()
      : null;
  } catch {
    return null;
  }
}
javascript
getLinkExtension("https://example.com/file.pdf"); // "pdf"
getLinkExtension("https://example.com/archive.tar.gz"); // "gz"(note how only the last extension is returned)
getLinkExtension("https://example.com/video.mp4?download=true"); // "mp4"
getLinkExtension("https://example.com/folder/"); // null (no file in the URL)
getLinkExtension("invalid-url"); // null (invalid URL)
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