Strip out portion of a url using jquery

Question

Google produces image thumbs like so http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:9vPPg9Y5ojFMeM::www.maniacworld.com/amazing-cars.jpg

I only need the main image url which in this case is www.maniacworld.com/amazing-cars.jpg I noticed we have :: before the main image url

What is the easiest way to do this via jquery.

Answer 1

You don't need jquery, you can probably just use a regular expression.

var re= /.+::/
var newurl = googleurl.replace(re,'');

Here's a working demo: http://jsfiddle.net/Rsefq/