---
title: baseURL
framework: foundation
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: foundation/url/baseurl
---

# baseURL

The base URL.

## Declaration

```swift
var baseURL: URL? { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion If the URL is itself absolute, then this value is nil.

## See Also

### Accessing URL representations

- [absoluteString](foundation/url/absolutestring.md)
- [absoluteURL](foundation/url/absoluteurl.md)
- [relativePath](foundation/url/relativepath.md)
- [relativeString](foundation/url/relativestring.md)
- [standardized](foundation/url/standardized.md)
- [standardizedFileURL](foundation/url/standardizedfileurl.md)