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JS exstract part of URL from multiple form fields

I have a form that has multiple fields all with the same class. These are populated with URL's that follow the same structure. I am trying to extract the same section from each URL. So far var res = x.split('/')[5]; will achieve this but only for the first URL. I can also use var x = document.querySelectorAll(".example") to change all the url's but I cannot find the correct way to combine both of these function. so far my code looks like this:
script>
function myFunction() {
var x = document.querySelectorAll(".example").innerHTML;
var res = x.split('/')[5];
var i;
for (i = 0; i < x.length; i++) {
x[i].innerHTML = res;
}
}
</script>
I have looked around but can't find a solution that fits. Thanks in advance for your help.

So loop over the HTML Collection, this is making assumptions based on code.
// Find all the elements
var elems = document.querySelectorAll(".example")
// loop over the collection
elems.forEach(function (elem) {
// reference the text of the element and split it
var txt = elem.innerHTML.split("/")[5]
// replace the text
elem.innerHTML = txt
})
<div class="example">1/2/3/4/5/a</div>
<div class="example">1/2/3/4/5/b</div>
<div class="example">1/2/3/4/5/c</div>
<div class="example">1/2/3/4/5/d</div>
<div class="example">1/2/3/4/5/e</div>
<div class="example">1/2/3/4/5/f</div>

Add a space between each character, but in a method

Hey :) I know a similiar question was asked before, but i just cant get it through. I want to create a method called something like makeMeSpaces, so my h2 text will have a space between each character.. and i might want to use it elsewhere aswell. I have this until now, from the logic point of view:
var text = "hello";
var betweenChars = ' '; // a space
document.querySelector("h1").innerHTML = (text.split('').join(betweenChars));
it also works pretty fine, but i think i want to do
<h2>Hello.makeMeSpaces()</h2>
or something like this
Thank you guys!

If you really want this in a 'reusable function,' you'd have to write your own:
function addSpaces(text) {
return text.split('').join(' ');
}
Then, elsewhere in code, you could call it like so:
var elem = document.querySelector('h2');
elem.innerHTML = addSpaces(elem.innerHTML);

Maybe this is what you want , not exactly what you showed but some what similar
Element.prototype.Spacefy = function() {
// innerText for IE < 9
// for others it's just textContent
var elem = (this.innerText) ? this.innerText : this.textContent,
// replacing HTML spaces (' ') with simple spaces (' ')
text = elem.replace(/ /g, " ");
// here , space = " " because HTML ASCII spaces are " "
space = " ",
// The output variable
output = "";
for (var i = 0; i < text.length; i++) {
// first take a character form element text
output += text[i];
// then add a space
output += space;
};
// return output
this.innerHTML = output;
};
function myFunction() {
var H1 = document.getElementById("H1");
// calling function
H1.Spacefy();
};
<h1 id="H1">
<!-- The tags inside the h1 will not be taken as text -->
<div>
Hello
</div>
</h1>
<br />
<button onclick="myFunction ()">Space-fy</button>
You can also click the button more than once :)
Note :- this script has a flow, it will not work for a nested DOM structure refer to chat to know more
Here is a link to chat if you need to discuss anything
Here is a good codepen provided by bgran which works better

Output variable into html

How do I output javascript into the html below. I've been trying to get anything to display, but the only thing that displays is "object,object"
<h2>title</h2>
<ul>
<li>rating</li>
<li>year</li>
<li>length</li>
<li>comedy</li>
<li>main characters</li>
</ul>
Thank you for you help everyone. I really appreciate it.

Pure JavaScript can be a little nasty on the eyes sometimes:
for (var i = 0; i < movieList.length; i++) {
document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('h2')).appendChild(document.createTextNode('title: ' + movieList[i].title));
var cUL = document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('ul'));
cUL.appendChild(document.createElement('li')).appendChild(document.createTextNode(movieList[i].rating));
cUL.appendChild(document.createElement('li')).appendChild(document.createTextNode(movieList[i].year));
cUL.appendChild(document.createElement('li')).appendChild(document.createTextNode(movieList[i].length));
cUL.appendChild(document.createElement('li')).appendChild(document.createTextNode(movieList[i].isComedy));
cUL.appendChild(document.createElement('li')).appendChild(document.createTextNode('main characters: ' + movieList[i].mainCharacters.join(", ")));
}
Demo here.

Here is your HTML:
<body id="thebody">
<h2>title: Goodfellas</h2>
<ul>
<li>rating: R</li>
<li>year: 1990</li>
<li>length: 3.25</li>
<li>comedy</li>
<li>main characters: James Conway, Henry Hill</li>
</ul>
</body>
HEre is your JS
var list = document.createElement("ul");
for (var key in movieList) {
var title = document.createElement("li");
var titleText = document.createTextNode("title: " + movieList[key].title);
title.appendChild(titleText);
list.appendChild(title);
}
var _body = document.getElementById('thebody');
_body.appendChild(list);
Here is the demo of course do this with every property

make your list and items into a template and cloning using jquery so you can insert the data into the elements. It's a relatively simple pattern to produce.
var divContainer = $('#divContainer');
for ( var i = 0; i < array.length; i += 1 )
divContainer.append
(
$('<ul></ul>').append
(
$('<li><li>').innerHtml(" prop Name " + array[i].propName)
)
);
Since it seems you are just getting started, here is a good little reference to get you started in the right direction. I wouldn't rely on a book chapter by chapter to get where you want to go. It's tedious and unrealistic. Make a goal and do some research, take it a reasonable and applicable problem at a time instead of tackling the whole of the language right off.

Here's a quick solution if you happen to be using jQuery:
Example (jsFiddle)
// loop through the movie list.
$.each(movieList, function() {
$('<h2>'+this.title+'<h2>').appendTo('#movies');
$('<ul>').appendTo('#movies');
$('<li>'+this.rating+'</li><li>'+this.year+'</li><li>'+this.length+'</li><li>'+this.isComedy+'</li>').appendTo('#movies');
// open the main characters list item.
var charLi = '<li>main characters: ';
$.each(this.mainCharacters, function() {
charLi += this + ', ';
});
// remove the extra comma and space.
charLi = charLi.substring(0, charLi.length - 2);
// close the list item.
charLi += '</li>';
$(charLi).appendTo('#movies');
$('</ul>').appendTo('#movies');
});

remove first half of string but keep second half in javascript or jquery

I recently created my own personal portal page to replace iGoogle since it's going to be shuttered later this year. Everything is working fine except that one of the RSS feeds that I'm pulling in outputs urls that look like this: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFEguC5pqagsWkkW_y_EjYj9n1bMg&url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-to-un-replace-austrian-peacekeepers-withdrawn-from-golan-1.528305
Which when clicked go to a bad url page. How would I remove the first half of that url so that it only has the part starting from the second http://
Strange, but here the link works fine...
Just realized the issue is that somehow the ampersands are being turned into entities which is breaking the links...

Try this. A generic approach.
function queryString(parameter, url) {
var a = document.createElement("a");
a.href = url;
var loc = decodeURIComponent(a.search.substring(1, a.search.length));
var param_value = false;
var params = loc.split("&");
for (var i = 0; i < params.length; i++) {
param_name = params[i].substring(0, params[i].indexOf('='));
if (param_name == parameter) {
param_value = params[i].substring(params[i].indexOf('=') + 1)
}
}
if (param_value) {
return encodeURIComponent(param_value);
}
else {
return "";
//param not found
}
}
var secondHTTP = queryString("url", 'http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFEguC5pqagsWkkW_y_EjYj9n1bMg&url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-to-un-replace-austrian-peacekeepers-withdrawn-from-golan-1.528305');

var str = "http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFEguC5pqagsWkkW_y_EjYj9n1bMg&url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-to-un-replace-austrian-peacekeepers-withdrawn-from-golan-1.528305";
var url = decodeURIComponent(str.split(/https?:/ig).pop());
will result in
"//www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-to-un-replace-austrian-peacekeepers-withdrawn-from-golan-1.528305"
or
var url = decodeURIComponent(str.match(/^http.+(http.+)/i)[1]);
will result in
"http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-to-un-replace-austrian-peacekeepers-withdrawn-from-golan-1.528305"

Edit: Code updated, jsFiddle added
HTML:
<input id="schnitzel" type="text" value="http://www.google.com/http://www.real-foo.bar/" />
<input type="button" onclick="$('#schnitzel').val(window.firstHTTP($('#schnitzel').val()));" value="»" />
JavaScript:
window.firstHTTP = function (furl = "") {
var chunked = furl.split("http://");
return (chunked && chunked[2]) ? ("http://" + chunked[2]) : furl;
};
JS-Fiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/Rm5bU/

Unable to retrieve values from eBay API response using Javascript

I am trying to build a very simple tool for use at my work. I work for eBay and currently the tools available are cumbersome for the task. We are asked to compare text and images to check that sellers aren't stealing each others content. I am using the eBay Trading API and the sample HTML/CSS/Javascript code given when the developer account was created. Ultimately what I hope to achieve is a simple page that displays two items' photo and description next to each other. However, right now I am simply trying to edit the sample code given to display the start date of the auction.
My question is this: I am trying add a variable who's value is determined by a response from the API. some of these are provided in the sample however, when I add my own var starttime = items.listingInfo.startTime to the function and add the variable to the HTML table none of the data displays including those that displayed prior to my addition. Unfortunately I don't have more than a rudimentary understanding of javascript and so am unsure if I am even properly phrasing this question, let alone getting the syntax of my addition correct. What am I doing wrong?
below is the sample text with my addition of one declared variable (starttime) and one addition to the HTML table
<html>
<head>
<title>eBay Search Results</title>
<style type="text/css">body { font-family: arial,sans-serif;} </style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>eBay Search Results</h1>
<div id="results"></div>
<script>
function _cb_findItemsByKeywords(root)
{
var items = root.findItemsByKeywordsResponse[0].searchResult[0].item || [];
var html = [];
html.push('<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3"><tbody>');
for (var i = 0; i < items.length; ++i)
{
var item = items[i];
var title = item.title;
var viewitem = item.viewItemURL;
var starttime = items.listingInfo.startTime;
if (null != title && null != viewitem)
{
html.push('<tr><td>' + '<img src="' + pic + '" border="0">' + '</td>' +
'<td>' + title + '' + starttime + '</td></tr>');
}
}
html.push('</tbody></table>');
document.getElementById("results").innerHTML = html.join("");
}
</script>
<!--
Use the value of your appid for the appid parameter below.
-->
<script src=http://svcs.ebay.com/services/search/FindingService/v1?SECURITY-APPNAME=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&OPERATION-NAME=findItemsByKeywords&SERVICE-VERSION=1.0.0&RESPONSE-DATA-FORMAT=JSON&callback=_cb_findItemsByKeywords&REST-PAYLOAD&keywords=iphone%203g&paginationInput.entriesPerPage=3>
</script>
</body>
</html>"

If you believe listingInfo is an property of individual items, and that it is an object that has the property startTime, then the proper syntax is:
var item = items[i];
var title = item.title;
var viewitem = item.viewItemURL;
var starttime = item.listingInfo.startTime;
You are currently referencing items which is the array of items, not an individual item.
Update
I looked into this via the URL you put in the comments. The solution to this particular problem is this:
var starttime = item.listingInfo[0].startTime;
I hope that helps. Please review the FAQ; Imho this question falls outside the scope of this site (the question is really quite narrow, and not likely to help anyone else). I recommend Mozilla Developer Network as a source for learning more about JavaScript.