WorkerGlobalScope: location property

{{APIRef("Web Workers API")}} {{AvailableInWorkers("worker")}} 

The location read-only property of the {{domxref("WorkerGlobalScope")}}  interface returns the {{domxref("WorkerLocation")}}  associated with the worker. It is a specific location object, mostly a subset of the {{domxref("Location")}}  for browsing scopes, but adapted to workers.

Value

A {{domxref("WorkerLocation")}}  object.

Examples

If you called the following in a document served at localhost:8000

console.log(location);

inside a worker (which would basically be the equivalent of self.console.log(self.location);, as these are being called on the worker scope, which can be referenced with {{domxref("WorkerGlobalScope.self")}} ), you will get a {{domxref("WorkerLocation")}}  object written to the console — something like the following:

WorkerLocation {hash: "", search: "", pathname: "/worker.js", port: "8000", hostname: "localhost"…}
  hash: ""
  host: "localhost:8000"
  hostname: "localhost"
  href: "http://localhost:8000/worker.js"
  origin: "http://localhost:8000"
  pathname: "/worker.js"
  port: "8000"
  protocol: "http:"
  search: ""
  __proto__: WorkerLocation

You could use this location object to return more information about the document’s location, as you might do with a normal {{domxref("Location")}}  object.

[!NOTE] Firefox has a bug with using console.log inside shared/service workers (see Firefox bug 1058644), which may return strange results, but this should be fixed soon.

Specifications

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Browser compatibility

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See also

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