How to convert URL parameters to a JavaScript object?

Question

I have a string like this:

abc=foo&def=%5Basf%5D&xyz=5

How can I convert it into a JavaScript object like this?

{
          


        

Answer 1

If you are using URI.js, you can use:

https://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-parseQuery

var result = URI.parseQuery("?foo=bar&hello=world&hello=mars&bam=&yup");
result === {
  foo: "bar",
  hello: ["world", "mars"],
  bam: "",
  yup: null
};

Answer 2

One simple answer with build in native Node module.(No third party npm modules)

The querystring module provides utilities for parsing and formatting URL query strings. It can be accessed using:

const querystring = require('querystring');

const body = "abc=foo&def=%5Basf%5D&xyz=5"
const parseJSON = querystring.parse(body);
console.log(parseJSON);

Answer 3

Here's my quick and dirty version, basically its splitting up the URL parameters separated by '&' into array elements, and then iterates over that array adding key/value pairs separated by '=' into an object. I'm using decodeURIComponent() to translate the encoded characters to their normal string equivalents (so %20 becomes a space, %26 becomes '&', etc):

function deparam(paramStr) {
    let paramArr = paramStr.split('&');     
    let paramObj = {};
    paramArr.forEach(e=>{
        let param = e.split('=');
        paramObj[param[0]] = decodeURIComponent(param[1]);
    });
    return paramObj;
}

example:

deparam('abc=foo&def=%5Basf%5D&xyz=5')

returns

{
    abc: "foo"
    def:"[asf]"
    xyz :"5"
}

The only issue is that xyz is a string and not a number (due to using decodeURIComponent()), but beyond that its not a bad starting point.

Answer 4

Another solution based on the latest standard of URLSearchParams (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URLSearchParams)

function getQueryParamsObject() {
  const searchParams = new URLSearchParams(location.search.slice(1));
  return searchParams
    ? _.fromPairs(Array.from(searchParams.entries()))
    : {};
}

Please note that this solution is making use of

Array.from (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/from)

and _.fromPairs (https://lodash.com/docs#fromPairs) of lodash for the sake of simplicity.

It should be easy to create a more compatible solution since you have access to searchParams.entries() iterator.

Answer 5

ES6 one liner. Clean and simple.

Object.fromEntries(new URLSearchParams(location.search));

For your specific case, it would be:

console.log(
  Object.fromEntries(new URLSearchParams('abc=foo&def=%5Basf%5D&xyz=5'))
);

Answer 6

Split on & to get name/value pairs, then split each pair on =. Here's an example:

var str = "abc=foo&def=%5Basf%5D&xy%5Bz=5"
var obj = str.split("&").reduce(function(prev, curr, i, arr) {
    var p = curr.split("=");
    prev[decodeURIComponent(p[0])] = decodeURIComponent(p[1]);
    return prev;
}, {});

Another approach, using regular expressions:

var obj = {}; 
str.replace(/([^=&]+)=([^&]*)/g, function(m, key, value) {
    obj[decodeURIComponent(key)] = decodeURIComponent(value);
}); 

This is adapted from John Resig's "Search and Don’t Replace".