Assistance extracting parameters from URL using jQuery

Question

I am attempting to extract 2 parameters from a URL string using jQuery and just do not have enough experience to figure it out.

Here is a sample of a URL:

http://awebsite.com/index.html?ref=toys&zip=30003

I would like to grab and assign these 2 parameters as variables. Here is what I've tried so far:

var url = window.location.href;
var params = url.split('?');
var ref = params[1].split('=')[1];
var zip = params[1].split('&')[1];

So that var ref would be toys and var zip would be 30003

Any help appreciated.

You can find yout answer here: stackoverflow.com/questions/19491336/get-url-parameter-jquery — sticksu
– sticksu, Commented Oct 24, 2014 at 18:41
Possible Duplicate : stackoverflow.com/questions/19491336/get-url-parameter-jquery — Ryan
– Ryan, Commented Oct 24, 2014 at 18:42
possible duplicate of How can I get query string values in JavaScript? — Mehdi
– Mehdi, Commented Oct 24, 2014 at 18:43
Thanks, but is there any way to do it more along the lines of what I have? That seems like a lot of code just to grab 2 parameters(not that it would affect load time, just want to keep it as clean as possible). — user13286
– user13286, Commented Oct 24, 2014 at 18:43

Guffa · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-24 18:46:39Z

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Split the query string on & so that you get each parameter in a string, then split each one on =.

Example:

var url = 'http://awebsite.com/index.html?ref=toys&zip=30003';

var params = url.substr(url.indexOf('?') + 1).split('&');
var ref = params[0].split('=')[1];
var zip = params[1].split('=')[1];

// show result in StackOverflow snippet
document.writeln(ref);
document.writeln(zip);

answered Oct 24, 2014 at 18:46

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