get file parameters in javascript call - javascript

I'm trying to create a script that will make it easier for users to use a custom button and I have something like
<script src="http://host.com/file.js?id=12345"></script>
What I wonder is how can I, in the file.js get that id parameter.
if I use document, it will get the original html page that has the script line and what I need is that id.
is there any way i can get that id successfully? What should be the scope?
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the idea is that I can have several buttons in the page for example to have a small and simply list:
<ul>
<li><script src="http://host.com/file.js?id=12345"></script></li>
<li><script src="http://host.com/file.js?id=23456"></script></li>
<li><script src="http://host.com/file.js?id=34567"></script></li>
</ul>
this will ultimately translate to
<ul>
<li><a class="view40btn" href="#" data-id="12345"><strong>V40</strong> Watch the video</a></li>
<li><a class="view40btn" href="#" data-id="23456"><strong>V40</strong> Watch the video</a></li>
<li><a class="view40btn" href="#" data-id="34567"><strong>V40</strong> Watch the video</a></li>
</ul>
the list above will look like this in HTML:
My only issue is that I can't assign the correct id to the data-id attribute as this is generated in the file.js.
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from Paulpro answer I got it working with his idea and knowing that the client will have much more scripts loaded and several with id's I changed it a bit for the final and working version:
var id = (function(){
var scripts = document.getElementsByTagName('script');
for(var i = 0, result = {}; i < scripts.length; i++)
if(scripts[i].hasAttribute('data-viewfileid'))
result['id'] = decodeURIComponent(scripts[i].getAttribute('data-viewfileid'));
return result['id'];
})();
var html = '<a class="view40btn" href="#" data-id="' + id + '"><strong>V40</strong> Watch the video</a>';
document.write(html);
the script for the user would only be:
<script data-viewfileid="4444" src="file.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

You can get the last script element on the page (which will always be the currently executing one):
var scripts = document.getElementsByTagName('script');
var s = scripts[scripts.length - 1];
Then modify one of the query string parsers from this question to work with that scripts src property:
var url = s.src;
var qs = url.substring(url.indexOf('?') + 1).split('&');
for(var i = 0, result = {}; i < qs.length; i++){
qs[i] = qs[i].split('=');
result[qs[i][0]] = decodeURIComponent(qs[i][2]);
}
That will give you an object containing all the query string properties on the current script. You can just access the properties like:
result['id']; // '12345'
In summary
To get the id parameter from within file.js, add the following code to the top of file.js:
var id = (function(){
var scripts = document.getElementsByTagName('script');
var s = scripts[scripts.length - 1];
var qs = s.src.substring(s.src.indexOf('?') + 1).split('&');
for(var i = 0, result = {}; i < qs.length; i++){
qs[i] = qs[i].split('=');
result[qs[i][0]] = decodeURIComponent(qs[i][3]);
}
return result['id'];
})();
Make sure it is not in any callback functions like a DOMReady callback.
Edit: You can probably reduce your script to:
var scripts = document.getElementsByTagName('script');
var id = scripts[scripts.length - 1].getAttribute('data-viewfileid');
var html = '<a class="view40btn" href="#" data-id="' + id + '"><strong>V40</strong> Watch the video</a>';
document.write(html);

JavaScript doesn't know anything about the script tag that loaded it. However, there are a few workarounds.
If the file is being preprocessed on the server, you could make the server render the value in the response:
(function() {
var id = <%= params.id %>;
//other stuff here
}());
Or you could give the script tag an id, and make your code find it and pull out the URL.
HTML:
<script src="http://host.com/file.js?id=12345" id="myscript"></script>
JS:
var id = document.getElementById('myscript').split('id=')[1];
Or in modern browsers you could perhaps do something like this to find script tags that match where you know the script is.
var scriptTag = document.querySelector('script[src^="http://host.com/file.js"]');
var id = scriptTag.src.split('id=')[1];

One more solution is to parse .js files with php interpreter. For example in apache configuration:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .js
And in JS:
alert('<?=$_GET["id"]?>');

You can put an ID on anything, including a script tag. So you can do something like this:
HTML:
<script id="myScript" src="http://host.com/file.js?id=12345"></script>
JS:
document.getElementById('myScript').src.split('=')[1]; to get the ID from that particular example string.
If that query string represents a timestamp (in which case you need the latest version) you can modify the JavaScript code to fetch the latest <script> tag like so:
var scripts = document.getElementsByTag('script');
var latestScriptId = scripts[scripts.length-1].src.split('=')[1];
EDIT: In the context of your new edit, you would then take latestScriptId and assign it to the data.id attribute corresponding to the button you would like to create...though again, semantically, it would just make more sense to use HTML's given id attribute, and additionally, since you are not using the href property for the anchor <a> tag, you're better off using a <button> element. So something like this would suffice:
var myButton = document.createElement('button');
myButton.className += 'view40btn';
myButton.id = latestScriptId;

According to your clarifications, what you asking how to do is not what you want to do.
Instead, include one script, and have multiple placeholder nodes.
HTML:
<ul>
<li class="mybutton" data-id="12345"></li>
<li class="mybutton" data-id="23456"></li>
<li class="mybutton" data-id="34567"></li>
</ul>
<script src="myscript.js"></script>
JS:
// myscript.js
var buttons = document.getElementsByClassName('mybutton');
for (var i = 0; i < buttons.length; i++) {
var button = buttons[i];
button.innerHTML = "my button html template here with id: "+ button.dataset.id;
}
See it work here: http://jsfiddle.net/zAdnB/

Javascript code does not "realise", that it is a part of some file. JS file is not "executable", there is no main method, which should be run after loading the file. You can not pass GET parameters to it - it is not clear how they should be interpreted.
In your HTML page, you should listen to "onload" method and then call the function from your file with your parameter.

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I am trying to hash data using JavaScript. When I run the first code it will hash using document.write. Now I try the second code to hash by content id it didn't work. Can anyone explain why?
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I would like to change the id of a tag from within the external script it points to. What is the proper way of doing this?
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