remove url parameters with javascript or jquery

Question

I am trying to use the youtube data api to generate a video playlist.

However, the video urls require a format of:

youtube.com/watch?v=3sZOD3xKL0Y
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Answer 1

For example we have:

example.com/list/search?q=Somethink

And you need use variable url like this by window.location.href:

example.com/list/edit

From url:

example.com/list/search?q=Somethink
example.com/list/

var url = (window.location.href);
    url = url.split('/search')[0];
    url = (url + '/edit');

This is simple solution:-)

Answer 2

Simple:

var new_url = old_url.substring(0, old_url.indexOf('?'));

Modified: this will remove all parameters or fragments from url

var oldURL = [YOUR_URL_TO_REMOVE_PARAMS]
var index = 0;
var newURL = oldURL;
index = oldURL.indexOf('?');
if(index == -1){
    index = oldURL.indexOf('#');
}
if(index != -1){
    newURL = oldURL.substring(0, index);
}

Answer 3

Hmm... Looking for better way... here it is

var onlyUrl = window.location.href.replace(window.location.search,'');

Answer 4

This worked for me:

window.location.replace(window.location.pathname)

Answer 5

Well, I am using this:

stripUrl(urlToStrip){
        let stripped = urlToStrip.split('?')[0];
        stripped = stripped.split('&')[0];
        stripped = stripped.split('#')[0];
        return stripped;
    }

or:

    stripUrl(urlToStrip){
        return urlToStrip.split('?')[0].split('&')[0].split('#')[0];
    }

Answer 6

You could use a RegEx to match the value of v and build the URL yourself since you know the URL is youtube.com/watch?v=...

http://jsfiddle.net/akURz/

var url = 'http://youtube.com/watch?v=3sZOD3xKL0Y';
alert(url.match(/v\=([a-z0-9]+)/i));