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How can I get query string values in JavaScript?
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I have a URL with some GET parameters as follows:
www.test.com/t.html?a=1&b=3&c=m2-m3-m4-m5
I need to get the whole value of c. I tried to read the URL, but I got only m2. How do I do this using JavaScript?
JavaScript itself has nothing built in for handling query string parameters.
Code running in a (modern) browser can use the URL object (a Web API). URL is also implemented by Node.js:
// You can get url_string from window.location.href if you want to work with
// the URL of the current page
var url_string = "http://www.example.com/t.html?a=1&b=3&c=m2-m3-m4-m5";
var url = new URL(url_string);
var c = url.searchParams.get("c");
console.log(c);
For older browsers (including Internet Explorer), you can use this polyfill.
You could also use one for URLSearchParams and extract the query string to pass to it with window.location.search.substring(1).
You could also use the code from the original version of this answer that predates URL. The above polyfill is robust and well tested and I strongly recommend it over this though.
You could access location.search, which would give you from the ? character on to the end of the URL or the start of the fragment identifier (#foo), whichever comes first.
Then you can parse it with this:
function parse_query_string(query) {
var vars = query.split("&");
var query_string = {};
for (var i = 0; i < vars.length; i++) {
var pair = vars[i].split("=");
var key = decodeURIComponent(pair.shift());
var value = decodeURIComponent(pair.join("="));
// If first entry with this name
if (typeof query_string[key] === "undefined") {
query_string[key] = value;
// If second entry with this name
} else if (typeof query_string[key] === "string") {
var arr = [query_string[key], value];
query_string[key] = arr;
// If third or later entry with this name
} else {
query_string[key].push(value);
}
}
return query_string;
}
var query_string = "a=1&b=3&c=m2-m3-m4-m5";
var parsed_qs = parse_query_string(query_string);
console.log(parsed_qs.c);
You can get the query string from the URL of the current page with:
var query = window.location.search.substring(1);
var qs = parse_query_string(query);
Most implementations I've seen miss out URL-decoding the names and the values.
Here's a general utility function that also does proper URL-decoding:
function getQueryParams(qs) {
qs = qs.split('+').join(' ');
var params = {},
tokens,
re = /[?&]?([^=]+)=([^&]*)/g;
while (tokens = re.exec(qs)) {
params[decodeURIComponent(tokens[1])] = decodeURIComponent(tokens[2]);
}
return params;
}
//var query = getQueryParams(document.location.search);
//alert(query.foo);
source
function gup( name, url ) {
if (!url) url = location.href;
name = name.replace(/[\[]/,"\\\[").replace(/[\]]/,"\\\]");
var regexS = "[\\?&]"+name+"=([^&#]*)";
var regex = new RegExp( regexS );
var results = regex.exec( url );
return results == null ? null : results[1];
}
gup('q', 'hxxp://example.com/?q=abc')
This is an easy way to check just one parameter:
Example URL:
http://myserver/action?myParam=2
Example Javascript:
var myParam = location.search.split('myParam=')[1]
if "myParam" exists in the URL... variable myParam will contain "2", otherwise it will be undefined.
Maybe you want a default value, in that case:
var myParam = location.search.split('myParam=')[1] ? location.search.split('myParam=')[1] : 'myDefaultValue';
Update: This works better:
var url = "http://www.example.com/index.php?myParam=384&login=admin"; // or window.location.href for current url
var captured = /myParam=([^&]+)/.exec(url)[1]; // Value is in [1] ('384' in our case)
var result = captured ? captured : 'myDefaultValue';
And it works right even when URL is full of parameters.
Browsers vendors have implemented a native way to do this via URL and URLSearchParams.
let url = new URL('http://www.test.com/t.html?a=1&b=3&c=m2-m3-m4-m5');
let searchParams = new URLSearchParams(url.search);
console.log(searchParams.get('c')); // outputs "m2-m3-m4-m5"
Currently supported in Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome and Edge. For a list of browser support see here.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URLSearchParams
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL/URL
https://url.spec.whatwg.org/
Eric Bidelman, an engineer at Google, recommends using this polyfill for unsupported browsers.
I found this ages ago, very easy:
function getUrlVars() {
var vars = {};
var parts = window.location.href.replace(/[?&]+([^=&]+)=([^&]*)/gi,
function(m,key,value) {
vars[key] = value;
});
return vars;
}
Then call it like this:
var fType = getUrlVars()["type"];
You can get the query string in location.search, then you can split everything after the question mark:
var params = {};
if (location.search) {
var parts = location.search.substring(1).split('&');
for (var i = 0; i < parts.length; i++) {
var nv = parts[i].split('=');
if (!nv[0]) continue;
params[nv[0]] = nv[1] || true;
}
}
// Now you can get the parameters you want like so:
var abc = params.abc;
A super simple way using URLSearchParams.
function getParam(param){
return new URLSearchParams(window.location.search).get(param);
}
It's currently supported in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and others.
I wrote a more simple and elegant solution.
var arr = document.URL.match(/room=([0-9]+)/)
var room = arr[1];
Here is a recursive solution that has no regex, and has minimal mutation (only the params object is mutated, which I believe is unavoidable in JS).
It's awesome because it:
Is recursive
Handles multiple parameters of the same name
Deals well with malformed parameter strings (missing values, so on)
Doesn't break if '=' is in the value
Performs URL decoding
And lastly, It's awesome because it...argh!!!
Code:
var get_params = function(search_string) {
var parse = function(params, pairs) {
var pair = pairs[0];
var parts = pair.split('=');
var key = decodeURIComponent(parts[0]);
var value = decodeURIComponent(parts.slice(1).join('='));
// Handle multiple parameters of the same name
if (typeof params[key] === "undefined") {
params[key] = value;
} else {
params[key] = [].concat(params[key], value);
}
return pairs.length == 1 ? params : parse(params, pairs.slice(1))
}
// Get rid of leading ?
return search_string.length == 0 ? {} : parse({}, search_string.substr(1).split('&'));
}
var params = get_params(location.search);
// Finally, to get the param you want
params['c'];
I made a function that does this:
var getUrlParams = function (url) {
var params = {};
(url + '?').split('?')[1].split('&').forEach(function (pair) {
pair = (pair + '=').split('=').map(decodeURIComponent);
if (pair[0].length) {
params[pair[0]] = pair[1];
}
});
return params;
};
Update 5/26/2017, here is an ES7 implementation (runs with babel preset stage 0, 1, 2, or 3):
const getUrlParams = url => `${url}?`.split('?')[1]
.split('&').reduce((params, pair) =>
((key, val) => key ? {...params, [key]: val} : params)
(...`${pair}=`.split('=').map(decodeURIComponent)), {});
Some tests:
console.log(getUrlParams('https://google.com/foo?a=1&b=2&c')); // Will log {a: '1', b: '2', c: ''}
console.log(getUrlParams('/foo?a=1&b=2&c')); // Will log {a: '1', b: '2', c: ''}
console.log(getUrlParams('?a=1&b=2&c')); // Will log {a: '1', b: '2', c: ''}
console.log(getUrlParams('https://google.com/')); // Will log {}
console.log(getUrlParams('a=1&b=2&c')); // Will log {}
Update 3/26/2018, here is a Typescript implementation:
const getUrlParams = (search: string) => `${search}?`
.split('?')[1]
.split('&')
.reduce(
(params: object, pair: string) => {
const [key, value] = `${pair}=`
.split('=')
.map(decodeURIComponent)
return key.length > 0 ? { ...params, [key]: value } : params
},
{}
)
Update 2/13/2019, here is an updated TypeScript implementation that works with TypeScript 3.
interface IParams { [key: string]: string }
const paramReducer = (params: IParams, pair: string): IParams => {
const [key, value] = `${pair}=`.split('=').map(decodeURIComponent)
return key.length > 0 ? { ...params, [key]: value } : params
}
const getUrlParams = (search: string): IParams =>
`${search}?`.split('?')[1].split('&').reduce<IParams>(paramReducer, {})
See this
function getURLParameters(paramName)
{
var sURL = window.document.URL.toString();
if (sURL.indexOf("?") > 0)
{
var arrParams = sURL.split("?");
var arrURLParams = arrParams[1].split("&");
var arrParamNames = new Array(arrURLParams.length);
var arrParamValues = new Array(arrURLParams.length);
var i = 0;
for (i = 0; i<arrURLParams.length; i++)
{
var sParam = arrURLParams[i].split("=");
arrParamNames[i] = sParam[0];
if (sParam[1] != "")
arrParamValues[i] = unescape(sParam[1]);
else
arrParamValues[i] = "No Value";
}
for (i=0; i<arrURLParams.length; i++)
{
if (arrParamNames[i] == paramName)
{
//alert("Parameter:" + arrParamValues[i]);
return arrParamValues[i];
}
}
return "No Parameters Found";
}
}
The shortest way:
new URL(location.href).searchParams.get("my_key");
ECMAScript 6 solution:
var params = window.location.search
.substring(1)
.split("&")
.map(v => v.split("="))
.reduce((map, [key, value]) => map.set(key, decodeURIComponent(value)), new Map())
I use the parseUri library. It allows you to do exactly what you are asking for:
var uri = 'www.test.com/t.html&a=1&b=3&c=m2-m3-m4-m5';
var c = uri.queryKey['c'];
// c = 'm2-m3-m4-m5'
I use
function getVal(str) {
var v = window.location.search.match(new RegExp('(?:[\?\&]'+str+'=)([^&]+)'));
return v ? v[1] : null;
}
this question has too many answers, so i'm adding another one.
/**
* parses and returns URI query parameters
*
* #param {string} param parm
* #param {bool?} asArray if true, returns an array instead of a scalar
* #returns {Object|Array}
*/
function getURIParameter(param, asArray) {
return document.location.search.substring(1).split('&').reduce(function(p,c) {
var parts = c.split('=', 2).map(function(param) { return decodeURIComponent(param); });
if(parts.length == 0 || parts[0] != param) return (p instanceof Array) && !asArray ? null : p;
return asArray ? p.concat(parts.concat(true)[1]) : parts.concat(true)[1];
}, []);
}
usage:
getURIParameter("id") // returns the last id or null if not present
getURIParameter("id", true) // returns an array of all ids
this copes with empty parameters (those keys present without "=value"), exposure of both a scalar and array-based value retrieval API, as well as proper URI component decoding.
Here is my solution. As advised by Andy E while answering this question, it's not good for your script's performance if it's repeatedly building various regex strings, running loops etc just to get a single value. So, I've come up with a simpler script that returns all the GET parameters in a single object. You should call it just once, assign the result to a variable and then, at any point in the future, get any value you want from that variable using the appropriate key. Note that it also takes care of URI decoding (i.e things like %20) and replaces + with a space:
function getUrlQueryParams(url) {
var queryString = url.split("?")[1];
var keyValuePairs = queryString.split("&");
var keyValue = [];
var queryParams = {};
keyValuePairs.forEach(function(pair) {
keyValue = pair.split("=");
queryParams[keyValue[0]] = decodeURIComponent(keyValue[1]).replace(/\+/g, " ");
});
return queryParams;
}
So, here are are a few tests of the script for you to see:
// Query parameters with strings only, no special characters.
var currentParams = getUrlQueryParams("example.com/foo?number=zero");
alert(currentParams["number"]); // Gives "zero".
// For the URL you stated above...
var someParams = getUrlQueryParams("www.test.com/t.html?a=1&b=3&c=m2-m3-m4-m5 ");
alert(someParams["c"]); // Gives "m2-m3-m4-m5".
// For a query params with URI encoding...
var someParams = getUrlQueryParams("www.example.com/t.html?phrase=a%20long%20shot&location=Silicon+Valley%2C+USA");
alert(someParams["phrase"]); // Gives "a long shot".
alert(someParams["location"]); // Gives "Silicon Valley, USA".
The easiest way using the replace() method:
From the urlStr string:
paramVal = urlStr.replace(/.*param_name=([^&]*).*|(.*)/, '$1');
or from the current URL:
paramVal = document.URL.replace(/.*param_name=([^&]*).*|(.*)/, '$1');
Explanation:
document.URL - interface returns the document location (page url) as a string.
replace() - method returns a new string with some or all matches of a pattern replaced by a replacement.
/.*param_name=([^&]*).*/ - the regular expression pattern enclosed between slashes which means:
.* - zero or more of any characters,
param_name= - param name which is serched,
() - group in regular expression,
[^&]* - one or more of any characters excluding &,
| - alternation,
$1 - reference to first group in regular expression.
var urlStr = 'www.test.com/t.html?a=1&b=3&c=m2-m3-m4-m5';
var c = urlStr.replace(/.*c=([^&]*).*|(.*)/, '$1');
var notExisted = urlStr.replace(/.*not_existed=([^&]*).*|(.*)/, '$1');
console.log(`c === '${c}'`);
console.log(`notExisted === '${notExisted}'`);
Yet another suggestion.
There are some good answers already, but I found them needlessly complex and hard to understand. This is short, simple, and returns a simple associative array with key names corresponding to the token names in the URL.
I added a version with comments below for those who want to learn.
Note this relies on jQuery ($.each) for its loop, which I recommend instead of forEach. I find it simpler to ensure cross-browser compatibility using jQuery across the board rather than plugging in individual fixes to support whichever new functions aren't supported in older browsers.
Edit: After I wrote this I noticed Eric Elliott's answer, which is almost the same, though it uses forEach, while I'm generally against (for reasons stated above).
function getTokens(){
var tokens = [];
var query = location.search;
query = query.slice(1);
query = query.split('&');
$.each(query, function(i,value){
var token = value.split('=');
var key = decodeURIComponent(token[0]);
var data = decodeURIComponent(token[1]);
tokens[key] = data;
});
return tokens;
}
Commented version:
function getTokens(){
var tokens = []; // new array to hold result
var query = location.search; // everything from the '?' onward
query = query.slice(1); // remove the first character, which will be the '?'
query = query.split('&'); // split via each '&', leaving us an array of something=something strings
// iterate through each something=something string
$.each(query, function(i,value){
// split the something=something string via '=', creating an array containing the token name and data
var token = value.split('=');
// assign the first array element (the token name) to the 'key' variable
var key = decodeURIComponent(token[0]);
// assign the second array element (the token data) to the 'data' variable
var data = decodeURIComponent(token[1]);
tokens[key] = data; // add an associative key/data pair to our result array, with key names being the URI token names
});
return tokens; // return the array
}
For the examples below we'll assume this address:
http://www.example.com/page.htm?id=4&name=murray
You can assign the URL tokens to your own variable:
var tokens = getTokens();
Then refer to each URL token by name like this:
document.write( tokens['id'] );
This would print "4".
You can also simply refer to a a token name from the function directly:
document.write( getTokens()['name'] );
...which would print "murray".
Or if you don't want to reinvent the URI parsing wheel use URI.js
To get the value of a parameter named foo:
new URI((''+document.location)).search(true).foo
What that does is
Convert document.location to a string (it's an object)
Feed that string to URI.js's URI class construtor
Invoke the search() function to get the search (query) portion of the url
(passing true tells it to output an object)
Access the foo property on the resulting object to get the value
Here's a fiddle for this.... http://jsfiddle.net/m6tett01/12/
For Single Parameter Value like this index.html?msg=1 use following code,
$(window).load(function(){
queryString();
});
function queryString()
{
var queryString = window.location.search.substring(1);
var varArray = queryString.split("="); //eg. index.html?msg=1
var param1 = varArray[0];
var param2 = varArray[1];
}
For All Parameter Value use following Code,
$(window).load(function(){
queryString();
});
function queryString()
{
var queryString = window.location.search;
var varArray = queryString.split("&");
for (var i=0;i<varArray.length;i++) {
var param = varArray[i].split("=");
//parameter-value pair
}
}
Here I am posting one example. But it's in jQuery. Hope it will help others:
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.url.js"></script>
<!-- URL: www.example.com/correct/?message=done&year=1990-->
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
$.url.attr('protocol') // --> Protocol: "http"
$.url.attr('path') // --> host: "www.example.com"
$.url.attr('query') // --> path: "/correct/"
$.url.attr('message') // --> query: "done"
$.url.attr('year') // --> query: "1990"
});
</script>
I had the need to read a URL GET variable and complete an action based on the url parameter. I searched high and low for a solution and came across this little piece of code. It basically reads the current page url, perform some regular expression on the URL then saves the url parameters in an associative array, which we can easily access.
So as an example if we had the following url with the javascript at the bottom in place.
http://TestServer/Pages/NewsArchive.aspx?year=2013&Month=July
All we’d need to do to get the parameters id and page are to call this:
The Code will be:
<script type="text/javascript">
var first = getUrlVars()["year"];
var second = getUrlVars()["Month"];
alert(first);
alert(second);
function getUrlVars() {
var vars = {};
var parts = window.location.href.replace(/[?&]+([^=&]+)=([^&]*)/gi, function(m,key,value) {
vars[key] = value;
});
return vars;
}
</script>
// Read a page's GET URL variables and return them as an associative array.
function getUrlVars()
{
var vars = [], hash;
var hashes = window.location.href.slice(window.location.href.indexOf('?') + 1).split('&');
for(var i = 0; i < hashes.length; i++)
{
hash = hashes[i].split('=');
vars.push(hash[0]);
vars[hash[0]] = hash[1];
}
return vars;
}
// Usage for URL: http://my.site.com/location?locationId=53cc272c0364aefcb78756cd&shared=false
var id = getUrlVars()["locationId"];
Got from here: http://jquery-howto.blogspot.ru/2009/09/get-url-parameters-values-with-jquery.html
Simple way
function getParams(url){
var regex = /[?&]([^=#]+)=([^&#]*)/g,
params = {},
match;
while(match = regex.exec(url)) {
params[match[1]] = match[2];
}
return params;
}
then call it like getParams(url)
Elegant, functional style solution
Let's create an object containing URL param names as keys, then we can easily extract the parameter by its name:
// URL: https://example.com/?test=true&orderId=9381
// Build an object containing key-value pairs
export const queryStringParams = window.location.search
.split('?')[1]
.split('&')
.map(keyValue => keyValue.split('='))
.reduce<QueryStringParams>((params, [key, value]) => {
params[key] = value;
return params;
}, {});
type QueryStringParams = {
[key: string]: string;
};
// Return URL parameter called "orderId"
return queryStringParams.orderId;
It's the N++ time I am looking for a clean way to do this.
Will save this here in case I get back cause I know I will... 🙄
const parseUrlQuery = (value) => {
var urlParams = new URL(value).searchParams
return Array.from(urlParams.keys()).reduce((acc, key) => {
acc[key] = urlParams.getAll(key)
return acc
}, {})
}
console.log(parseUrlQuery('http://url/path?param1=A¶m1=B¶m2=ABC¶m3=61569'))
Here is what I do:
var uriParams = getSearchParameters();
alert(uriParams.c);
// background functions:
// Get object/associative array of URL parameters
function getSearchParameters () {
var prmstr = window.location.search.substr(1);
return prmstr !== null && prmstr !== "" ? transformToAssocArray(prmstr) : {};
}
// convert parameters from url-style string to associative array
function transformToAssocArray (prmstr) {
var params = {},
prmarr = prmstr.split("&");
for (var i = 0; i < prmarr.length; i++) {
var tmparr = prmarr[i].split("=");
params[tmparr[0]] = tmparr[1];
}
return params;
}
// http:localhost:8080/path?param_1=a¶m_2=b
var getParamsMap = function () {
var params = window.location.search.split("&");
var paramsMap = {};
params.forEach(function (p) {
var v = p.split("=");
paramsMap[v[0]]=decodeURIComponent(v[1]);
});
return paramsMap;
};
// -----------------------
console.log(getParamsMap()["param_1"]); // should log "a"
This question already has answers here:
How can I get query string values in JavaScript?
(73 answers)
Closed 1 year ago.
I have a URL with some GET parameters as follows:
www.test.com/t.html?a=1&b=3&c=m2-m3-m4-m5
I need to get the whole value of c. I tried to read the URL, but I got only m2. How do I do this using JavaScript?
JavaScript itself has nothing built in for handling query string parameters.
Code running in a (modern) browser can use the URL object (a Web API). URL is also implemented by Node.js:
// You can get url_string from window.location.href if you want to work with
// the URL of the current page
var url_string = "http://www.example.com/t.html?a=1&b=3&c=m2-m3-m4-m5";
var url = new URL(url_string);
var c = url.searchParams.get("c");
console.log(c);
For older browsers (including Internet Explorer), you can use this polyfill.
You could also use one for URLSearchParams and extract the query string to pass to it with window.location.search.substring(1).
You could also use the code from the original version of this answer that predates URL. The above polyfill is robust and well tested and I strongly recommend it over this though.
You could access location.search, which would give you from the ? character on to the end of the URL or the start of the fragment identifier (#foo), whichever comes first.
Then you can parse it with this:
function parse_query_string(query) {
var vars = query.split("&");
var query_string = {};
for (var i = 0; i < vars.length; i++) {
var pair = vars[i].split("=");
var key = decodeURIComponent(pair.shift());
var value = decodeURIComponent(pair.join("="));
// If first entry with this name
if (typeof query_string[key] === "undefined") {
query_string[key] = value;
// If second entry with this name
} else if (typeof query_string[key] === "string") {
var arr = [query_string[key], value];
query_string[key] = arr;
// If third or later entry with this name
} else {
query_string[key].push(value);
}
}
return query_string;
}
var query_string = "a=1&b=3&c=m2-m3-m4-m5";
var parsed_qs = parse_query_string(query_string);
console.log(parsed_qs.c);
You can get the query string from the URL of the current page with:
var query = window.location.search.substring(1);
var qs = parse_query_string(query);
Most implementations I've seen miss out URL-decoding the names and the values.
Here's a general utility function that also does proper URL-decoding:
function getQueryParams(qs) {
qs = qs.split('+').join(' ');
var params = {},
tokens,
re = /[?&]?([^=]+)=([^&]*)/g;
while (tokens = re.exec(qs)) {
params[decodeURIComponent(tokens[1])] = decodeURIComponent(tokens[2]);
}
return params;
}
//var query = getQueryParams(document.location.search);
//alert(query.foo);
source
function gup( name, url ) {
if (!url) url = location.href;
name = name.replace(/[\[]/,"\\\[").replace(/[\]]/,"\\\]");
var regexS = "[\\?&]"+name+"=([^&#]*)";
var regex = new RegExp( regexS );
var results = regex.exec( url );
return results == null ? null : results[1];
}
gup('q', 'hxxp://example.com/?q=abc')
This is an easy way to check just one parameter:
Example URL:
http://myserver/action?myParam=2
Example Javascript:
var myParam = location.search.split('myParam=')[1]
if "myParam" exists in the URL... variable myParam will contain "2", otherwise it will be undefined.
Maybe you want a default value, in that case:
var myParam = location.search.split('myParam=')[1] ? location.search.split('myParam=')[1] : 'myDefaultValue';
Update: This works better:
var url = "http://www.example.com/index.php?myParam=384&login=admin"; // or window.location.href for current url
var captured = /myParam=([^&]+)/.exec(url)[1]; // Value is in [1] ('384' in our case)
var result = captured ? captured : 'myDefaultValue';
And it works right even when URL is full of parameters.
Browsers vendors have implemented a native way to do this via URL and URLSearchParams.
let url = new URL('http://www.test.com/t.html?a=1&b=3&c=m2-m3-m4-m5');
let searchParams = new URLSearchParams(url.search);
console.log(searchParams.get('c')); // outputs "m2-m3-m4-m5"
Currently supported in Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome and Edge. For a list of browser support see here.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URLSearchParams
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL/URL
https://url.spec.whatwg.org/
Eric Bidelman, an engineer at Google, recommends using this polyfill for unsupported browsers.
I found this ages ago, very easy:
function getUrlVars() {
var vars = {};
var parts = window.location.href.replace(/[?&]+([^=&]+)=([^&]*)/gi,
function(m,key,value) {
vars[key] = value;
});
return vars;
}
Then call it like this:
var fType = getUrlVars()["type"];
You can get the query string in location.search, then you can split everything after the question mark:
var params = {};
if (location.search) {
var parts = location.search.substring(1).split('&');
for (var i = 0; i < parts.length; i++) {
var nv = parts[i].split('=');
if (!nv[0]) continue;
params[nv[0]] = nv[1] || true;
}
}
// Now you can get the parameters you want like so:
var abc = params.abc;
A super simple way using URLSearchParams.
function getParam(param){
return new URLSearchParams(window.location.search).get(param);
}
It's currently supported in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and others.
I wrote a more simple and elegant solution.
var arr = document.URL.match(/room=([0-9]+)/)
var room = arr[1];
Here is a recursive solution that has no regex, and has minimal mutation (only the params object is mutated, which I believe is unavoidable in JS).
It's awesome because it:
Is recursive
Handles multiple parameters of the same name
Deals well with malformed parameter strings (missing values, so on)
Doesn't break if '=' is in the value
Performs URL decoding
And lastly, It's awesome because it...argh!!!
Code:
var get_params = function(search_string) {
var parse = function(params, pairs) {
var pair = pairs[0];
var parts = pair.split('=');
var key = decodeURIComponent(parts[0]);
var value = decodeURIComponent(parts.slice(1).join('='));
// Handle multiple parameters of the same name
if (typeof params[key] === "undefined") {
params[key] = value;
} else {
params[key] = [].concat(params[key], value);
}
return pairs.length == 1 ? params : parse(params, pairs.slice(1))
}
// Get rid of leading ?
return search_string.length == 0 ? {} : parse({}, search_string.substr(1).split('&'));
}
var params = get_params(location.search);
// Finally, to get the param you want
params['c'];
I made a function that does this:
var getUrlParams = function (url) {
var params = {};
(url + '?').split('?')[1].split('&').forEach(function (pair) {
pair = (pair + '=').split('=').map(decodeURIComponent);
if (pair[0].length) {
params[pair[0]] = pair[1];
}
});
return params;
};
Update 5/26/2017, here is an ES7 implementation (runs with babel preset stage 0, 1, 2, or 3):
const getUrlParams = url => `${url}?`.split('?')[1]
.split('&').reduce((params, pair) =>
((key, val) => key ? {...params, [key]: val} : params)
(...`${pair}=`.split('=').map(decodeURIComponent)), {});
Some tests:
console.log(getUrlParams('https://google.com/foo?a=1&b=2&c')); // Will log {a: '1', b: '2', c: ''}
console.log(getUrlParams('/foo?a=1&b=2&c')); // Will log {a: '1', b: '2', c: ''}
console.log(getUrlParams('?a=1&b=2&c')); // Will log {a: '1', b: '2', c: ''}
console.log(getUrlParams('https://google.com/')); // Will log {}
console.log(getUrlParams('a=1&b=2&c')); // Will log {}
Update 3/26/2018, here is a Typescript implementation:
const getUrlParams = (search: string) => `${search}?`
.split('?')[1]
.split('&')
.reduce(
(params: object, pair: string) => {
const [key, value] = `${pair}=`
.split('=')
.map(decodeURIComponent)
return key.length > 0 ? { ...params, [key]: value } : params
},
{}
)
Update 2/13/2019, here is an updated TypeScript implementation that works with TypeScript 3.
interface IParams { [key: string]: string }
const paramReducer = (params: IParams, pair: string): IParams => {
const [key, value] = `${pair}=`.split('=').map(decodeURIComponent)
return key.length > 0 ? { ...params, [key]: value } : params
}
const getUrlParams = (search: string): IParams =>
`${search}?`.split('?')[1].split('&').reduce<IParams>(paramReducer, {})
See this
function getURLParameters(paramName)
{
var sURL = window.document.URL.toString();
if (sURL.indexOf("?") > 0)
{
var arrParams = sURL.split("?");
var arrURLParams = arrParams[1].split("&");
var arrParamNames = new Array(arrURLParams.length);
var arrParamValues = new Array(arrURLParams.length);
var i = 0;
for (i = 0; i<arrURLParams.length; i++)
{
var sParam = arrURLParams[i].split("=");
arrParamNames[i] = sParam[0];
if (sParam[1] != "")
arrParamValues[i] = unescape(sParam[1]);
else
arrParamValues[i] = "No Value";
}
for (i=0; i<arrURLParams.length; i++)
{
if (arrParamNames[i] == paramName)
{
//alert("Parameter:" + arrParamValues[i]);
return arrParamValues[i];
}
}
return "No Parameters Found";
}
}
The shortest way:
new URL(location.href).searchParams.get("my_key");
ECMAScript 6 solution:
var params = window.location.search
.substring(1)
.split("&")
.map(v => v.split("="))
.reduce((map, [key, value]) => map.set(key, decodeURIComponent(value)), new Map())
I use the parseUri library. It allows you to do exactly what you are asking for:
var uri = 'www.test.com/t.html&a=1&b=3&c=m2-m3-m4-m5';
var c = uri.queryKey['c'];
// c = 'm2-m3-m4-m5'
I use
function getVal(str) {
var v = window.location.search.match(new RegExp('(?:[\?\&]'+str+'=)([^&]+)'));
return v ? v[1] : null;
}
this question has too many answers, so i'm adding another one.
/**
* parses and returns URI query parameters
*
* #param {string} param parm
* #param {bool?} asArray if true, returns an array instead of a scalar
* #returns {Object|Array}
*/
function getURIParameter(param, asArray) {
return document.location.search.substring(1).split('&').reduce(function(p,c) {
var parts = c.split('=', 2).map(function(param) { return decodeURIComponent(param); });
if(parts.length == 0 || parts[0] != param) return (p instanceof Array) && !asArray ? null : p;
return asArray ? p.concat(parts.concat(true)[1]) : parts.concat(true)[1];
}, []);
}
usage:
getURIParameter("id") // returns the last id or null if not present
getURIParameter("id", true) // returns an array of all ids
this copes with empty parameters (those keys present without "=value"), exposure of both a scalar and array-based value retrieval API, as well as proper URI component decoding.
Here is my solution. As advised by Andy E while answering this question, it's not good for your script's performance if it's repeatedly building various regex strings, running loops etc just to get a single value. So, I've come up with a simpler script that returns all the GET parameters in a single object. You should call it just once, assign the result to a variable and then, at any point in the future, get any value you want from that variable using the appropriate key. Note that it also takes care of URI decoding (i.e things like %20) and replaces + with a space:
function getUrlQueryParams(url) {
var queryString = url.split("?")[1];
var keyValuePairs = queryString.split("&");
var keyValue = [];
var queryParams = {};
keyValuePairs.forEach(function(pair) {
keyValue = pair.split("=");
queryParams[keyValue[0]] = decodeURIComponent(keyValue[1]).replace(/\+/g, " ");
});
return queryParams;
}
So, here are are a few tests of the script for you to see:
// Query parameters with strings only, no special characters.
var currentParams = getUrlQueryParams("example.com/foo?number=zero");
alert(currentParams["number"]); // Gives "zero".
// For the URL you stated above...
var someParams = getUrlQueryParams("www.test.com/t.html?a=1&b=3&c=m2-m3-m4-m5 ");
alert(someParams["c"]); // Gives "m2-m3-m4-m5".
// For a query params with URI encoding...
var someParams = getUrlQueryParams("www.example.com/t.html?phrase=a%20long%20shot&location=Silicon+Valley%2C+USA");
alert(someParams["phrase"]); // Gives "a long shot".
alert(someParams["location"]); // Gives "Silicon Valley, USA".
The easiest way using the replace() method:
From the urlStr string:
paramVal = urlStr.replace(/.*param_name=([^&]*).*|(.*)/, '$1');
or from the current URL:
paramVal = document.URL.replace(/.*param_name=([^&]*).*|(.*)/, '$1');
Explanation:
document.URL - interface returns the document location (page url) as a string.
replace() - method returns a new string with some or all matches of a pattern replaced by a replacement.
/.*param_name=([^&]*).*/ - the regular expression pattern enclosed between slashes which means:
.* - zero or more of any characters,
param_name= - param name which is serched,
() - group in regular expression,
[^&]* - one or more of any characters excluding &,
| - alternation,
$1 - reference to first group in regular expression.
var urlStr = 'www.test.com/t.html?a=1&b=3&c=m2-m3-m4-m5';
var c = urlStr.replace(/.*c=([^&]*).*|(.*)/, '$1');
var notExisted = urlStr.replace(/.*not_existed=([^&]*).*|(.*)/, '$1');
console.log(`c === '${c}'`);
console.log(`notExisted === '${notExisted}'`);
Yet another suggestion.
There are some good answers already, but I found them needlessly complex and hard to understand. This is short, simple, and returns a simple associative array with key names corresponding to the token names in the URL.
I added a version with comments below for those who want to learn.
Note this relies on jQuery ($.each) for its loop, which I recommend instead of forEach. I find it simpler to ensure cross-browser compatibility using jQuery across the board rather than plugging in individual fixes to support whichever new functions aren't supported in older browsers.
Edit: After I wrote this I noticed Eric Elliott's answer, which is almost the same, though it uses forEach, while I'm generally against (for reasons stated above).
function getTokens(){
var tokens = [];
var query = location.search;
query = query.slice(1);
query = query.split('&');
$.each(query, function(i,value){
var token = value.split('=');
var key = decodeURIComponent(token[0]);
var data = decodeURIComponent(token[1]);
tokens[key] = data;
});
return tokens;
}
Commented version:
function getTokens(){
var tokens = []; // new array to hold result
var query = location.search; // everything from the '?' onward
query = query.slice(1); // remove the first character, which will be the '?'
query = query.split('&'); // split via each '&', leaving us an array of something=something strings
// iterate through each something=something string
$.each(query, function(i,value){
// split the something=something string via '=', creating an array containing the token name and data
var token = value.split('=');
// assign the first array element (the token name) to the 'key' variable
var key = decodeURIComponent(token[0]);
// assign the second array element (the token data) to the 'data' variable
var data = decodeURIComponent(token[1]);
tokens[key] = data; // add an associative key/data pair to our result array, with key names being the URI token names
});
return tokens; // return the array
}
For the examples below we'll assume this address:
http://www.example.com/page.htm?id=4&name=murray
You can assign the URL tokens to your own variable:
var tokens = getTokens();
Then refer to each URL token by name like this:
document.write( tokens['id'] );
This would print "4".
You can also simply refer to a a token name from the function directly:
document.write( getTokens()['name'] );
...which would print "murray".
Or if you don't want to reinvent the URI parsing wheel use URI.js
To get the value of a parameter named foo:
new URI((''+document.location)).search(true).foo
What that does is
Convert document.location to a string (it's an object)
Feed that string to URI.js's URI class construtor
Invoke the search() function to get the search (query) portion of the url
(passing true tells it to output an object)
Access the foo property on the resulting object to get the value
Here's a fiddle for this.... http://jsfiddle.net/m6tett01/12/
For Single Parameter Value like this index.html?msg=1 use following code,
$(window).load(function(){
queryString();
});
function queryString()
{
var queryString = window.location.search.substring(1);
var varArray = queryString.split("="); //eg. index.html?msg=1
var param1 = varArray[0];
var param2 = varArray[1];
}
For All Parameter Value use following Code,
$(window).load(function(){
queryString();
});
function queryString()
{
var queryString = window.location.search;
var varArray = queryString.split("&");
for (var i=0;i<varArray.length;i++) {
var param = varArray[i].split("=");
//parameter-value pair
}
}
Here I am posting one example. But it's in jQuery. Hope it will help others:
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.url.js"></script>
<!-- URL: www.example.com/correct/?message=done&year=1990-->
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
$.url.attr('protocol') // --> Protocol: "http"
$.url.attr('path') // --> host: "www.example.com"
$.url.attr('query') // --> path: "/correct/"
$.url.attr('message') // --> query: "done"
$.url.attr('year') // --> query: "1990"
});
</script>
I had the need to read a URL GET variable and complete an action based on the url parameter. I searched high and low for a solution and came across this little piece of code. It basically reads the current page url, perform some regular expression on the URL then saves the url parameters in an associative array, which we can easily access.
So as an example if we had the following url with the javascript at the bottom in place.
http://TestServer/Pages/NewsArchive.aspx?year=2013&Month=July
All we’d need to do to get the parameters id and page are to call this:
The Code will be:
<script type="text/javascript">
var first = getUrlVars()["year"];
var second = getUrlVars()["Month"];
alert(first);
alert(second);
function getUrlVars() {
var vars = {};
var parts = window.location.href.replace(/[?&]+([^=&]+)=([^&]*)/gi, function(m,key,value) {
vars[key] = value;
});
return vars;
}
</script>
// Read a page's GET URL variables and return them as an associative array.
function getUrlVars()
{
var vars = [], hash;
var hashes = window.location.href.slice(window.location.href.indexOf('?') + 1).split('&');
for(var i = 0; i < hashes.length; i++)
{
hash = hashes[i].split('=');
vars.push(hash[0]);
vars[hash[0]] = hash[1];
}
return vars;
}
// Usage for URL: http://my.site.com/location?locationId=53cc272c0364aefcb78756cd&shared=false
var id = getUrlVars()["locationId"];
Got from here: http://jquery-howto.blogspot.ru/2009/09/get-url-parameters-values-with-jquery.html
Simple way
function getParams(url){
var regex = /[?&]([^=#]+)=([^&#]*)/g,
params = {},
match;
while(match = regex.exec(url)) {
params[match[1]] = match[2];
}
return params;
}
then call it like getParams(url)
Elegant, functional style solution
Let's create an object containing URL param names as keys, then we can easily extract the parameter by its name:
// URL: https://example.com/?test=true&orderId=9381
// Build an object containing key-value pairs
export const queryStringParams = window.location.search
.split('?')[1]
.split('&')
.map(keyValue => keyValue.split('='))
.reduce<QueryStringParams>((params, [key, value]) => {
params[key] = value;
return params;
}, {});
type QueryStringParams = {
[key: string]: string;
};
// Return URL parameter called "orderId"
return queryStringParams.orderId;
It's the N++ time I am looking for a clean way to do this.
Will save this here in case I get back cause I know I will... 🙄
const parseUrlQuery = (value) => {
var urlParams = new URL(value).searchParams
return Array.from(urlParams.keys()).reduce((acc, key) => {
acc[key] = urlParams.getAll(key)
return acc
}, {})
}
console.log(parseUrlQuery('http://url/path?param1=A¶m1=B¶m2=ABC¶m3=61569'))
Here is what I do:
var uriParams = getSearchParameters();
alert(uriParams.c);
// background functions:
// Get object/associative array of URL parameters
function getSearchParameters () {
var prmstr = window.location.search.substr(1);
return prmstr !== null && prmstr !== "" ? transformToAssocArray(prmstr) : {};
}
// convert parameters from url-style string to associative array
function transformToAssocArray (prmstr) {
var params = {},
prmarr = prmstr.split("&");
for (var i = 0; i < prmarr.length; i++) {
var tmparr = prmarr[i].split("=");
params[tmparr[0]] = tmparr[1];
}
return params;
}
// http:localhost:8080/path?param_1=a¶m_2=b
var getParamsMap = function () {
var params = window.location.search.split("&");
var paramsMap = {};
params.forEach(function (p) {
var v = p.split("=");
paramsMap[v[0]]=decodeURIComponent(v[1]);
});
return paramsMap;
};
// -----------------------
console.log(getParamsMap()["param_1"]); // should log "a"
I have URLs of that form:
https://www.merkel.com/obama?trump=15&id=9616071454&hilarry=es
I would like, via javascript to replace 9616071454 with 1, for example.
I know about the replace(), but this will replace "id" itself, not the value of "id".
Is there anything common in the web dev world? :)
The solution considering situations when:
id param can contain other characters besides digits
avoiding fragment # replacement when id is followed by #
var str = 'https://www.foo.com/bar?trump=15&hilarry=es&id=961607some1454text#fragment',
newId = 1,
replaced = str.replace(/\bid=[^&#]+/g, "id=" + newId);
console.log(replaced); // "https://www.foo.com/bar?trump=15&hilarry=es&id=1#fragment"
Simply hard-code that &id= to be re-replaced.
var str = 'https://www.merkel.com/obama?trump=15&id=9616071454&hilarry=es';
var str2 = 'https://www.merkel.com/obama?id=9616071454&trump=15&hilarry=es';
var newId = '123';
str = str.replace(/([&?])id=[0-9]+/, '$1id=' + newId);
str2 = str2.replace(/([&?])id=[0-9]+/, '$1id=' + newId);
alert(str);
alert(str2);
Its simple pattern matching. You can refer to this URL about pattern matching.
function(newValue,url) {
url=url.replace(/id=\d+/,'id='+newValue);
return url;
}
This function works and it allows you to pick way parameter you want.
var exampleStrng ='trump=15&id=9616071454&hilarry=es'; // this is an example query string.
var urlQry = window.document.location.search.substring(1); // you can use this in live code to get the query string.
// reusable function for split in text.
function strSpliter( str, splitVal ){
return str.split(splitVal);
}
// function to reassign query parameter values.
function changQry(qry, setParam, chngVal){
var pnt = strSpliter(qry, '&'),//use the spliter function to change the query into an array split on the '&' character.
newQryArr = [], // a temp array to hold the new parameters and their value.
newQry = '',// this will be the string where the query parameters and values are reconstructed into a string.
newQryStr = '';// this will be the query with the new value.
pnt.forEach( function( item, idx ){
var param = strSpliter(item, '='); //use the spliter function to split the parameter and their value.
// checks the parameter against the one you want to change.
if( param[0] === setParam ){
param[1] = chngVal;// assigns the new value to the parameter.
newQryArr.push(param.join('=')); // rejoins the parameter and its value and pushes it into the temp array.
} else {
newQryArr.push(param.join('='));// rejoins the parameter and its value and pushes it into the temp array.
}
newQry = newQryArr.join('&');// rejoins all the parameters and their values.
newQryStr = '?' + newQry;// creates the new query string.
});
return newQryStr; // returns the new search query string.
}
changQry(exampleStrng, 'id', 77777745);
without comments
var urlQry = window.document.location.search.substring(1);
function strSpliter( str, splitVal ){
return str.split(splitVal);
}
function changQry(qry, setParam, chngVal){
var pnt = strSpliter(qry, '&'),
newQryArr = [],
newQry = '',
newQryStr = '';
pnt.forEach( function( item, idx ){
var param = strSpliter(item, '=');
if( param[0] === setParam ){
param[1] = chngVal;
newQryArr.push(param.join('='));
} else {
newQryArr.push(param.join('='));
}
newQry = newQryArr.join('&');
newQryStr = '?' + newQry;
});
return newQryStr;
}
changQry(urlQry, 'id', 77777745);
I got an GET request on a webpage, with multidimensional checkboxes.
The GET request would look like this:
&company_state[AKERSHUS]=AKERSHUS&company_state[AKERSHUS][]=ASKER&company_state[SOGN+OG+FJORDANE]=SOGN+OG+FJORDANE&company_state[SOGN+OG+FJORDANE][]=ASKVOLL
As you can see, company_state is an array, wich again contains an array of values.
Is it possible to use jQuery or plain JS to grab the URL parameters, and trigger a click on the checkboxes with the same name (company_state, company_municipality) and value?
I tried using this, but this doesn't seem to work in this purpose to grab the params.
function getQueryParams(qs) {
qs = qs.split("+").join(" ");
var params = {},
tokens,
re = /[?&]?([^=]+)=([^&]*)/g;
while (tokens = re.exec(qs)) {
params[decodeURIComponent(tokens[1])] = decodeURIComponent(tokens[2]);
}
return params;
}
Thanks in advance.
EDIT:
Gives this result in console:
You can parse query string as array,
and then iterate over array and extract key and value.
Code is like this:
function getQueryParameters(str) {
return (str || document.location.search).replace(/(^\?)/,'').split("&").map(
function(n){
return n = n.split("="),this[n[0]] = n[1],this;
}.bind({}))[0];
}
var url = "&company_state[AKERSHUS]=AKERSHUS&company_state[AKERSHUS[]=ASKER&company_state[SOGN+OG+FJORDANE]=SOGN+OG+FJORDANE&company_state[SOGN+OG+FJORDANE][]=ASKVOLL";
var arr = getQueryParameters(url);
for(var a in arr){
console.log("key:" , a.substr('company_state'.length), " value:" , arr[a]);
}
You have here a live example.
This question already has answers here:
How can I get query string values in JavaScript?
(73 answers)
Closed 1 year ago.
I have a URL with some GET parameters as follows:
www.test.com/t.html?a=1&b=3&c=m2-m3-m4-m5
I need to get the whole value of c. I tried to read the URL, but I got only m2. How do I do this using JavaScript?
JavaScript itself has nothing built in for handling query string parameters.
Code running in a (modern) browser can use the URL object (a Web API). URL is also implemented by Node.js:
// You can get url_string from window.location.href if you want to work with
// the URL of the current page
var url_string = "http://www.example.com/t.html?a=1&b=3&c=m2-m3-m4-m5";
var url = new URL(url_string);
var c = url.searchParams.get("c");
console.log(c);
For older browsers (including Internet Explorer), you can use this polyfill.
You could also use one for URLSearchParams and extract the query string to pass to it with window.location.search.substring(1).
You could also use the code from the original version of this answer that predates URL. The above polyfill is robust and well tested and I strongly recommend it over this though.
You could access location.search, which would give you from the ? character on to the end of the URL or the start of the fragment identifier (#foo), whichever comes first.
Then you can parse it with this:
function parse_query_string(query) {
var vars = query.split("&");
var query_string = {};
for (var i = 0; i < vars.length; i++) {
var pair = vars[i].split("=");
var key = decodeURIComponent(pair.shift());
var value = decodeURIComponent(pair.join("="));
// If first entry with this name
if (typeof query_string[key] === "undefined") {
query_string[key] = value;
// If second entry with this name
} else if (typeof query_string[key] === "string") {
var arr = [query_string[key], value];
query_string[key] = arr;
// If third or later entry with this name
} else {
query_string[key].push(value);
}
}
return query_string;
}
var query_string = "a=1&b=3&c=m2-m3-m4-m5";
var parsed_qs = parse_query_string(query_string);
console.log(parsed_qs.c);
You can get the query string from the URL of the current page with:
var query = window.location.search.substring(1);
var qs = parse_query_string(query);
Most implementations I've seen miss out URL-decoding the names and the values.
Here's a general utility function that also does proper URL-decoding:
function getQueryParams(qs) {
qs = qs.split('+').join(' ');
var params = {},
tokens,
re = /[?&]?([^=]+)=([^&]*)/g;
while (tokens = re.exec(qs)) {
params[decodeURIComponent(tokens[1])] = decodeURIComponent(tokens[2]);
}
return params;
}
//var query = getQueryParams(document.location.search);
//alert(query.foo);
source
function gup( name, url ) {
if (!url) url = location.href;
name = name.replace(/[\[]/,"\\\[").replace(/[\]]/,"\\\]");
var regexS = "[\\?&]"+name+"=([^&#]*)";
var regex = new RegExp( regexS );
var results = regex.exec( url );
return results == null ? null : results[1];
}
gup('q', 'hxxp://example.com/?q=abc')
This is an easy way to check just one parameter:
Example URL:
http://myserver/action?myParam=2
Example Javascript:
var myParam = location.search.split('myParam=')[1]
if "myParam" exists in the URL... variable myParam will contain "2", otherwise it will be undefined.
Maybe you want a default value, in that case:
var myParam = location.search.split('myParam=')[1] ? location.search.split('myParam=')[1] : 'myDefaultValue';
Update: This works better:
var url = "http://www.example.com/index.php?myParam=384&login=admin"; // or window.location.href for current url
var captured = /myParam=([^&]+)/.exec(url)[1]; // Value is in [1] ('384' in our case)
var result = captured ? captured : 'myDefaultValue';
And it works right even when URL is full of parameters.
Browsers vendors have implemented a native way to do this via URL and URLSearchParams.
let url = new URL('http://www.test.com/t.html?a=1&b=3&c=m2-m3-m4-m5');
let searchParams = new URLSearchParams(url.search);
console.log(searchParams.get('c')); // outputs "m2-m3-m4-m5"
Currently supported in Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome and Edge. For a list of browser support see here.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URLSearchParams
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL/URL
https://url.spec.whatwg.org/
Eric Bidelman, an engineer at Google, recommends using this polyfill for unsupported browsers.
I found this ages ago, very easy:
function getUrlVars() {
var vars = {};
var parts = window.location.href.replace(/[?&]+([^=&]+)=([^&]*)/gi,
function(m,key,value) {
vars[key] = value;
});
return vars;
}
Then call it like this:
var fType = getUrlVars()["type"];
You can get the query string in location.search, then you can split everything after the question mark:
var params = {};
if (location.search) {
var parts = location.search.substring(1).split('&');
for (var i = 0; i < parts.length; i++) {
var nv = parts[i].split('=');
if (!nv[0]) continue;
params[nv[0]] = nv[1] || true;
}
}
// Now you can get the parameters you want like so:
var abc = params.abc;
A super simple way using URLSearchParams.
function getParam(param){
return new URLSearchParams(window.location.search).get(param);
}
It's currently supported in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and others.
I wrote a more simple and elegant solution.
var arr = document.URL.match(/room=([0-9]+)/)
var room = arr[1];
Here is a recursive solution that has no regex, and has minimal mutation (only the params object is mutated, which I believe is unavoidable in JS).
It's awesome because it:
Is recursive
Handles multiple parameters of the same name
Deals well with malformed parameter strings (missing values, so on)
Doesn't break if '=' is in the value
Performs URL decoding
And lastly, It's awesome because it...argh!!!
Code:
var get_params = function(search_string) {
var parse = function(params, pairs) {
var pair = pairs[0];
var parts = pair.split('=');
var key = decodeURIComponent(parts[0]);
var value = decodeURIComponent(parts.slice(1).join('='));
// Handle multiple parameters of the same name
if (typeof params[key] === "undefined") {
params[key] = value;
} else {
params[key] = [].concat(params[key], value);
}
return pairs.length == 1 ? params : parse(params, pairs.slice(1))
}
// Get rid of leading ?
return search_string.length == 0 ? {} : parse({}, search_string.substr(1).split('&'));
}
var params = get_params(location.search);
// Finally, to get the param you want
params['c'];
I made a function that does this:
var getUrlParams = function (url) {
var params = {};
(url + '?').split('?')[1].split('&').forEach(function (pair) {
pair = (pair + '=').split('=').map(decodeURIComponent);
if (pair[0].length) {
params[pair[0]] = pair[1];
}
});
return params;
};
Update 5/26/2017, here is an ES7 implementation (runs with babel preset stage 0, 1, 2, or 3):
const getUrlParams = url => `${url}?`.split('?')[1]
.split('&').reduce((params, pair) =>
((key, val) => key ? {...params, [key]: val} : params)
(...`${pair}=`.split('=').map(decodeURIComponent)), {});
Some tests:
console.log(getUrlParams('https://google.com/foo?a=1&b=2&c')); // Will log {a: '1', b: '2', c: ''}
console.log(getUrlParams('/foo?a=1&b=2&c')); // Will log {a: '1', b: '2', c: ''}
console.log(getUrlParams('?a=1&b=2&c')); // Will log {a: '1', b: '2', c: ''}
console.log(getUrlParams('https://google.com/')); // Will log {}
console.log(getUrlParams('a=1&b=2&c')); // Will log {}
Update 3/26/2018, here is a Typescript implementation:
const getUrlParams = (search: string) => `${search}?`
.split('?')[1]
.split('&')
.reduce(
(params: object, pair: string) => {
const [key, value] = `${pair}=`
.split('=')
.map(decodeURIComponent)
return key.length > 0 ? { ...params, [key]: value } : params
},
{}
)
Update 2/13/2019, here is an updated TypeScript implementation that works with TypeScript 3.
interface IParams { [key: string]: string }
const paramReducer = (params: IParams, pair: string): IParams => {
const [key, value] = `${pair}=`.split('=').map(decodeURIComponent)
return key.length > 0 ? { ...params, [key]: value } : params
}
const getUrlParams = (search: string): IParams =>
`${search}?`.split('?')[1].split('&').reduce<IParams>(paramReducer, {})
See this
function getURLParameters(paramName)
{
var sURL = window.document.URL.toString();
if (sURL.indexOf("?") > 0)
{
var arrParams = sURL.split("?");
var arrURLParams = arrParams[1].split("&");
var arrParamNames = new Array(arrURLParams.length);
var arrParamValues = new Array(arrURLParams.length);
var i = 0;
for (i = 0; i<arrURLParams.length; i++)
{
var sParam = arrURLParams[i].split("=");
arrParamNames[i] = sParam[0];
if (sParam[1] != "")
arrParamValues[i] = unescape(sParam[1]);
else
arrParamValues[i] = "No Value";
}
for (i=0; i<arrURLParams.length; i++)
{
if (arrParamNames[i] == paramName)
{
//alert("Parameter:" + arrParamValues[i]);
return arrParamValues[i];
}
}
return "No Parameters Found";
}
}
The shortest way:
new URL(location.href).searchParams.get("my_key");
ECMAScript 6 solution:
var params = window.location.search
.substring(1)
.split("&")
.map(v => v.split("="))
.reduce((map, [key, value]) => map.set(key, decodeURIComponent(value)), new Map())
I use the parseUri library. It allows you to do exactly what you are asking for:
var uri = 'www.test.com/t.html&a=1&b=3&c=m2-m3-m4-m5';
var c = uri.queryKey['c'];
// c = 'm2-m3-m4-m5'
I use
function getVal(str) {
var v = window.location.search.match(new RegExp('(?:[\?\&]'+str+'=)([^&]+)'));
return v ? v[1] : null;
}
this question has too many answers, so i'm adding another one.
/**
* parses and returns URI query parameters
*
* #param {string} param parm
* #param {bool?} asArray if true, returns an array instead of a scalar
* #returns {Object|Array}
*/
function getURIParameter(param, asArray) {
return document.location.search.substring(1).split('&').reduce(function(p,c) {
var parts = c.split('=', 2).map(function(param) { return decodeURIComponent(param); });
if(parts.length == 0 || parts[0] != param) return (p instanceof Array) && !asArray ? null : p;
return asArray ? p.concat(parts.concat(true)[1]) : parts.concat(true)[1];
}, []);
}
usage:
getURIParameter("id") // returns the last id or null if not present
getURIParameter("id", true) // returns an array of all ids
this copes with empty parameters (those keys present without "=value"), exposure of both a scalar and array-based value retrieval API, as well as proper URI component decoding.
Here is my solution. As advised by Andy E while answering this question, it's not good for your script's performance if it's repeatedly building various regex strings, running loops etc just to get a single value. So, I've come up with a simpler script that returns all the GET parameters in a single object. You should call it just once, assign the result to a variable and then, at any point in the future, get any value you want from that variable using the appropriate key. Note that it also takes care of URI decoding (i.e things like %20) and replaces + with a space:
function getUrlQueryParams(url) {
var queryString = url.split("?")[1];
var keyValuePairs = queryString.split("&");
var keyValue = [];
var queryParams = {};
keyValuePairs.forEach(function(pair) {
keyValue = pair.split("=");
queryParams[keyValue[0]] = decodeURIComponent(keyValue[1]).replace(/\+/g, " ");
});
return queryParams;
}
So, here are are a few tests of the script for you to see:
// Query parameters with strings only, no special characters.
var currentParams = getUrlQueryParams("example.com/foo?number=zero");
alert(currentParams["number"]); // Gives "zero".
// For the URL you stated above...
var someParams = getUrlQueryParams("www.test.com/t.html?a=1&b=3&c=m2-m3-m4-m5 ");
alert(someParams["c"]); // Gives "m2-m3-m4-m5".
// For a query params with URI encoding...
var someParams = getUrlQueryParams("www.example.com/t.html?phrase=a%20long%20shot&location=Silicon+Valley%2C+USA");
alert(someParams["phrase"]); // Gives "a long shot".
alert(someParams["location"]); // Gives "Silicon Valley, USA".
The easiest way using the replace() method:
From the urlStr string:
paramVal = urlStr.replace(/.*param_name=([^&]*).*|(.*)/, '$1');
or from the current URL:
paramVal = document.URL.replace(/.*param_name=([^&]*).*|(.*)/, '$1');
Explanation:
document.URL - interface returns the document location (page url) as a string.
replace() - method returns a new string with some or all matches of a pattern replaced by a replacement.
/.*param_name=([^&]*).*/ - the regular expression pattern enclosed between slashes which means:
.* - zero or more of any characters,
param_name= - param name which is serched,
() - group in regular expression,
[^&]* - one or more of any characters excluding &,
| - alternation,
$1 - reference to first group in regular expression.
var urlStr = 'www.test.com/t.html?a=1&b=3&c=m2-m3-m4-m5';
var c = urlStr.replace(/.*c=([^&]*).*|(.*)/, '$1');
var notExisted = urlStr.replace(/.*not_existed=([^&]*).*|(.*)/, '$1');
console.log(`c === '${c}'`);
console.log(`notExisted === '${notExisted}'`);
Yet another suggestion.
There are some good answers already, but I found them needlessly complex and hard to understand. This is short, simple, and returns a simple associative array with key names corresponding to the token names in the URL.
I added a version with comments below for those who want to learn.
Note this relies on jQuery ($.each) for its loop, which I recommend instead of forEach. I find it simpler to ensure cross-browser compatibility using jQuery across the board rather than plugging in individual fixes to support whichever new functions aren't supported in older browsers.
Edit: After I wrote this I noticed Eric Elliott's answer, which is almost the same, though it uses forEach, while I'm generally against (for reasons stated above).
function getTokens(){
var tokens = [];
var query = location.search;
query = query.slice(1);
query = query.split('&');
$.each(query, function(i,value){
var token = value.split('=');
var key = decodeURIComponent(token[0]);
var data = decodeURIComponent(token[1]);
tokens[key] = data;
});
return tokens;
}
Commented version:
function getTokens(){
var tokens = []; // new array to hold result
var query = location.search; // everything from the '?' onward
query = query.slice(1); // remove the first character, which will be the '?'
query = query.split('&'); // split via each '&', leaving us an array of something=something strings
// iterate through each something=something string
$.each(query, function(i,value){
// split the something=something string via '=', creating an array containing the token name and data
var token = value.split('=');
// assign the first array element (the token name) to the 'key' variable
var key = decodeURIComponent(token[0]);
// assign the second array element (the token data) to the 'data' variable
var data = decodeURIComponent(token[1]);
tokens[key] = data; // add an associative key/data pair to our result array, with key names being the URI token names
});
return tokens; // return the array
}
For the examples below we'll assume this address:
http://www.example.com/page.htm?id=4&name=murray
You can assign the URL tokens to your own variable:
var tokens = getTokens();
Then refer to each URL token by name like this:
document.write( tokens['id'] );
This would print "4".
You can also simply refer to a a token name from the function directly:
document.write( getTokens()['name'] );
...which would print "murray".
Or if you don't want to reinvent the URI parsing wheel use URI.js
To get the value of a parameter named foo:
new URI((''+document.location)).search(true).foo
What that does is
Convert document.location to a string (it's an object)
Feed that string to URI.js's URI class construtor
Invoke the search() function to get the search (query) portion of the url
(passing true tells it to output an object)
Access the foo property on the resulting object to get the value
Here's a fiddle for this.... http://jsfiddle.net/m6tett01/12/
For Single Parameter Value like this index.html?msg=1 use following code,
$(window).load(function(){
queryString();
});
function queryString()
{
var queryString = window.location.search.substring(1);
var varArray = queryString.split("="); //eg. index.html?msg=1
var param1 = varArray[0];
var param2 = varArray[1];
}
For All Parameter Value use following Code,
$(window).load(function(){
queryString();
});
function queryString()
{
var queryString = window.location.search;
var varArray = queryString.split("&");
for (var i=0;i<varArray.length;i++) {
var param = varArray[i].split("=");
//parameter-value pair
}
}
Here I am posting one example. But it's in jQuery. Hope it will help others:
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.url.js"></script>
<!-- URL: www.example.com/correct/?message=done&year=1990-->
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
$.url.attr('protocol') // --> Protocol: "http"
$.url.attr('path') // --> host: "www.example.com"
$.url.attr('query') // --> path: "/correct/"
$.url.attr('message') // --> query: "done"
$.url.attr('year') // --> query: "1990"
});
</script>
I had the need to read a URL GET variable and complete an action based on the url parameter. I searched high and low for a solution and came across this little piece of code. It basically reads the current page url, perform some regular expression on the URL then saves the url parameters in an associative array, which we can easily access.
So as an example if we had the following url with the javascript at the bottom in place.
http://TestServer/Pages/NewsArchive.aspx?year=2013&Month=July
All we’d need to do to get the parameters id and page are to call this:
The Code will be:
<script type="text/javascript">
var first = getUrlVars()["year"];
var second = getUrlVars()["Month"];
alert(first);
alert(second);
function getUrlVars() {
var vars = {};
var parts = window.location.href.replace(/[?&]+([^=&]+)=([^&]*)/gi, function(m,key,value) {
vars[key] = value;
});
return vars;
}
</script>
// Read a page's GET URL variables and return them as an associative array.
function getUrlVars()
{
var vars = [], hash;
var hashes = window.location.href.slice(window.location.href.indexOf('?') + 1).split('&');
for(var i = 0; i < hashes.length; i++)
{
hash = hashes[i].split('=');
vars.push(hash[0]);
vars[hash[0]] = hash[1];
}
return vars;
}
// Usage for URL: http://my.site.com/location?locationId=53cc272c0364aefcb78756cd&shared=false
var id = getUrlVars()["locationId"];
Got from here: http://jquery-howto.blogspot.ru/2009/09/get-url-parameters-values-with-jquery.html
Simple way
function getParams(url){
var regex = /[?&]([^=#]+)=([^&#]*)/g,
params = {},
match;
while(match = regex.exec(url)) {
params[match[1]] = match[2];
}
return params;
}
then call it like getParams(url)
Elegant, functional style solution
Let's create an object containing URL param names as keys, then we can easily extract the parameter by its name:
// URL: https://example.com/?test=true&orderId=9381
// Build an object containing key-value pairs
export const queryStringParams = window.location.search
.split('?')[1]
.split('&')
.map(keyValue => keyValue.split('='))
.reduce<QueryStringParams>((params, [key, value]) => {
params[key] = value;
return params;
}, {});
type QueryStringParams = {
[key: string]: string;
};
// Return URL parameter called "orderId"
return queryStringParams.orderId;
It's the N++ time I am looking for a clean way to do this.
Will save this here in case I get back cause I know I will... 🙄
const parseUrlQuery = (value) => {
var urlParams = new URL(value).searchParams
return Array.from(urlParams.keys()).reduce((acc, key) => {
acc[key] = urlParams.getAll(key)
return acc
}, {})
}
console.log(parseUrlQuery('http://url/path?param1=A¶m1=B¶m2=ABC¶m3=61569'))
Here is what I do:
var uriParams = getSearchParameters();
alert(uriParams.c);
// background functions:
// Get object/associative array of URL parameters
function getSearchParameters () {
var prmstr = window.location.search.substr(1);
return prmstr !== null && prmstr !== "" ? transformToAssocArray(prmstr) : {};
}
// convert parameters from url-style string to associative array
function transformToAssocArray (prmstr) {
var params = {},
prmarr = prmstr.split("&");
for (var i = 0; i < prmarr.length; i++) {
var tmparr = prmarr[i].split("=");
params[tmparr[0]] = tmparr[1];
}
return params;
}
// http:localhost:8080/path?param_1=a¶m_2=b
var getParamsMap = function () {
var params = window.location.search.split("&");
var paramsMap = {};
params.forEach(function (p) {
var v = p.split("=");
paramsMap[v[0]]=decodeURIComponent(v[1]);
});
return paramsMap;
};
// -----------------------
console.log(getParamsMap()["param_1"]); // should log "a"