---
title: 'useRequestURL'
description: 'Access the incoming request URL with the useRequestURL composable.'
links:
  - label: Source
    icon: i-simple-icons-github
    to: https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt/blob/main/packages/nuxt/src/app/composables/url.ts
    size: xs
---

`useRequestURL` is a helper function that returns an [URL object](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL/URL) working on both server-side and client-side.

::code-group

```vue [pages/about.vue]
<script setup lang="ts">
const url = useRequestURL()
</script>

<template>
  <p>URL is: {{ url }}</p>
  <p>Path is: {{ url.pathname }}</p>
</template>
```

```html [Result in development]
<p>URL is: http://localhost:3000/about</p>
<p>Path is: /about</p>
```

::

::tip{icon="i-simple-icons-mdnwebdocs" color="gray" to="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL#instance_properties" target="_blank"}
Read about the URL instance properties on the MDN documentation.
::