parse-redis-url

parse-redis-url
===============

A module for parsing redis://.. URLs into
node_redis-friendly options.

Can also create actual client instance for your convenience.


Usage
-----

``javascript
var redis = require('redis');
var parseRedisUrl = require('parse-redis-url')(redis);
var url = 'redis://dummy:password@example.com:5555/42';

// create a new client from URL

parseRedisUrl.createClient(url, function(err, client) {
if (err) return callback(err);
// do something with client
});

// simply parse URL for connection options
// please note that username is not used by Redis,
// so it's not included in the result

var options = parseRedisUrl.parse(url);
// { host: 'example.com',
// port: 5555,
// password: 'password',
// database: 42 }

``