WorkerGlobalScope: location property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

Note: This feature is only available in Web Workers.

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

Value

A 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 WorkerGlobalScope.self), you will get a 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 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.