How to replace url parameter with javascript/jquery?

Question

I\'ve been looking for an efficient way to do this but haven\'t been able to find it, basically what I need is that given this url for example:

http://localh         


        

Answer 1

Javascript now give a very useful functionnality to handle url parameters: URLSearchParams

var searchParams = new URLSearchParams(window.location.search);
searchParams.set('src','newSrc')
var newParams = searchParams.toString()

Answer 2

Nowdays that's possible with native JS

var href = new URL('https://google.com?q=cats');
href.searchParams.set('q', 'dogs');
console.log(href.toString()); // https://google.com/?q=dogs

Answer 3

Here is modified stenix's code, it's not perfect but it handles cases where there is a param in url that contains provided parameter, like:

/search?searchquery=text and 'query' is provided.

In this case searchquery param value is changed.

Code:

function replaceUrlParam(url, paramName, paramValue){
    var pattern = new RegExp('(\\?|\\&)('+paramName+'=).*?(&|$)')
    var newUrl=url
    if(url.search(pattern)>=0){
        newUrl = url.replace(pattern,'$1$2' + paramValue + '$3');
    }
    else{
        newUrl = newUrl + (newUrl.indexOf('?')>0 ? '&' : '?') + paramName + '=' + paramValue
    }
    return newUrl
}

Answer 4

2020 answer since I was missing the functionality to automatically delete a parameter, so:

Based on my favorite answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/20420424/6284674 : I combined it with the ability to:

• automatically delete an URL param if the value if null or '' based on answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/25214672/6284674

• optionally push the updated URL directly in the window.location bar

• IE support since it's only using regex and no URLSearchParams

JSfiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/MickV/zxc3b47u/

function replaceUrlParam(url, paramName, paramValue){
    if(paramValue == null || paramValue == "")
        return url
        .replace(new RegExp('[?&]' + paramValue + '=[^&#]*(#.*)?$'), '$1')
        .replace(new RegExp('([?&])' + paramValue + '=[^&]*&'), '$1');   
    url = url.replace(/\?$/,'');
    var pattern = new RegExp('\\b('+paramName+'=).*?(&|$)')
    if(url.search(pattern)>=0){
        return url.replace(pattern,'$1' + paramValue + '$2');
    }
    return url + (url.indexOf('?')>0 ? '&' : '?') + paramName + '=' + paramValue 
}

// Orginal URL (default jsfiddle console URL)
//https://fiddle.jshell.net/_display/?editor_console=true

console.log(replaceUrlParam(window.location.href,'a','2'));   
//https://fiddle.jshell.net/_display/?editor_console=true&a=2

console.log(replaceUrlParam(window.location.href,'a',''));   
//https://fiddle.jshell.net/_display/?editor_console=true

console.log(replaceUrlParam(window.location.href,'a',3));   
//https://fiddle.jshell.net/_display/?editor_console=true&a=3

console.log(replaceUrlParam(window.location.href,'a', null));   
//https://fiddle.jshell.net/_display/?editor_console=true&

//Optionally also update the replaced URL in the window location bar
//Note: This does not work in JSfiddle, but it does in a normal browser
function pushUrl(url){
    window.history.pushState("", "", replaceUrlParam(window.location.href,'a','2'));   
}


pushUrl(replaceUrlParam(window.location.href,'a','2'));   
//https://fiddle.jshell.net/_display/?editor_console=true&a=2

pushUrl(replaceUrlParam(window.location.href,'a',''));   
//https://fiddle.jshell.net/_display/?editor_console=true

pushUrl(replaceUrlParam(window.location.href,'a',3));   
//https://fiddle.jshell.net/_display/?editor_console=true&a=3

pushUrl(replaceUrlParam(window.location.href,'a', null));   
//https://fiddle.jshell.net/_display/?editor_console=true&

Answer 5

try this

var updateQueryStringParam = function (key, value) {

    var baseUrl = [location.protocol, '//', location.host, location.pathname].join(''),
        urlQueryString = document.location.search,
        newParam = key + '=' + value,
        params = '?' + newParam;

    // If the "search" string exists, then build params from it
    if (urlQueryString) {
        var updateRegex = new RegExp('([\?&])' + key + '[^&]*');
        var removeRegex = new RegExp('([\?&])' + key + '=[^&;]+[&;]?');

        if( typeof value == 'undefined' || value == null || value == '' ) { // Remove param if value is empty
            params = urlQueryString.replace(removeRegex, "$1");
            params = params.replace( /[&;]$/, "" );

        } else if (urlQueryString.match(updateRegex) !== null) { // If param exists already, update it
            params = urlQueryString.replace(updateRegex, "$1" + newParam);

        } else { // Otherwise, add it to end of query string
            params = urlQueryString + '&' + newParam;
        }
    }

    // no parameter was set so we don't need the question mark
    params = params == '?' ? '' : params;

    window.history.replaceState({}, "", baseUrl + params);
};

Answer 6

If you are having very narrow and specific use-case like replacing a particular parameter of given name that have alpha-numeric values with certain special characters capped upto certain length limit, you could try this approach:

urlValue.replace(/\bsrc=[0-9a-zA-Z_@.#+-]{1,50}\b/, 'src=' + newValue);

Example:

let urlValue = 'www.example.com?a=b&src=test-value&p=q';
const newValue = 'sucess';
console.log(urlValue.replace(/\bsrc=[0-9a-zA-Z_@.#+-]{1,50}\b/, 'src=' + newValue));
// output - www.example.com?a=b&src=sucess&p=q