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Get and Set Query String Parameters With JavaScript

You used to have to write your own JavaScript function to get and set query string parameters, but the modern way to do it is to use URLSearchParams.

Examples

Below are some examples of what you can do with URLSearchParams.

const params = new URLSearchParams('cool=true&page=2'); 
// or use could pass in window.location.search to get the parameters for the current page
const cool = params.get('cool'); // "indeed"
const page = params.get('page'); // "1"
params.set('page', '5'); // "5"
params.append('more', 'indeed');
params.toString(); // cool=true&page=2&more=indeed

Here is everything that you can do, assuming the base is const params = new URLSearchParams('https://codeboosh.com?cool=indeed&page=2')

append

params.append('more', 'indeed');

delete

params.delete('page');

get

params.get('cool'); // true

getAll

params.getAll('cool'); // ['indeed']

has

params.has('cool'); // true

set

params.set('page', '5');

toString

params.toString(); // cool=indeed&page=5

sort

params.sort();

forEach

params.forEach(function (item) {
  console.log(item);
});

keys

for (var key of params.keys()) {
  console.log(key);
}

values

for (var value of params.values()) {
  console.log(value);
}

Browser support

Browser support for URLSearchParams is pretty super, with all modern browsers supporting it. However, if you need to support IE, you will have to use a polyfill.

Polyfill for IE

There are a few nice polyfills out there if you need to support IE including url-search-params-polyfill and url-search-params.

👍 Thanks for reading. Have a great rest of your day.