url-search-params-polyfill

What is url-search-params-polyfill?

The url-search-params-polyfill package is a polyfill for the URLSearchParams interface, which allows you to work with the query string of a URL. This package is particularly useful for environments that do not support the URLSearchParams natively, such as older browsers.

What are url-search-params-polyfill's main functionalities?

Creating URLSearchParams

This feature allows you to create a new URLSearchParams object from a query string. The code sample demonstrates how to initialize the URLSearchParams with a query string.

const params = new URLSearchParams('key1=value1&key2=value2');

Appending Parameters

This feature allows you to append new key-value pairs to the URLSearchParams object. The code sample shows how to add a new parameter to the URLSearchParams.

const params = new URLSearchParams();
params.append('key', 'value');

Getting Parameter Values

This feature allows you to retrieve the value of a specific parameter from the URLSearchParams object. The code sample demonstrates how to get the value associated with a specific key.

const params = new URLSearchParams('key1=value1&key2=value2');
const value = params.get('key1');

Deleting Parameters

This feature allows you to delete a specific parameter from the URLSearchParams object. The code sample shows how to remove a parameter by its key.

const params = new URLSearchParams('key1=value1&key2=value2');
params.delete('key1');

Iterating Over Parameters

This feature allows you to iterate over all key-value pairs in the URLSearchParams object. The code sample demonstrates how to use a for...of loop to log each key-value pair.

const params = new URLSearchParams('key1=value1&key2=value2');
for (const [key, value] of params) {
  console.log(key, value);
}

Other packages similar to url-search-params-polyfill

query-string

The query-string package provides utilities for parsing and stringifying URL query strings. It offers a more feature-rich API compared to url-search-params-polyfill, including support for nested objects and array values.

qs

The qs package is a query string parser with support for nested objects, arrays, and other advanced features. It is more powerful and flexible than url-search-params-polyfill, making it suitable for complex query string manipulations.

url-parse

The url-parse package is a lightweight URL parser that includes support for query string parsing and manipulation. It provides a comprehensive API for working with URLs and their components, including query strings.

README

URLSearchParams polyfill

This is a polyfill library for javascript's URLSearchParams class. This library has implemented all features from MDN document.

This library can use for both browsers and nodeJs.

Some browsers have native URLSearchParams class support, but not full. The new 2.x version detects if browsers have full feature support and extends it.

Installation

This can also be installed with npm.

$ npm install url-search-params-polyfill --save

For babel and es2015+, make sure to import the file:

import 'url-search-params-polyfill';

For es5:

require('url-search-params-polyfill');

For browser, copy the index.js file to your project, and add a script tag in your html:

<script src="index.js"></script>

Usage

Use URLSearchParams directly. You can new an object from a string or an object.

// new an empty object
var search1 = new URLSearchParams ();

// from a string
var search2 = new URLSearchParams ("id=1&from=home");

// from an object
var search3 = new URLSearchParams ({id: 1, from: "home"});

// from location.search, will remove first "?" automatically
var search4 = new URLSearchParams (window.location.search);

// from anther URLSearchParams object
var search5 = new URLSearchParams (search2);

append

var search = new URLSearchParams ();

search.append("id", 1);

delete

search.delete("id");

get

search.get("id");

getAll

search.getAll("id");

has

search.has("id");

set

search.set("id", 2);

toString

search.toString();

sort

search.sort();

forEach

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

keys

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

values

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

for...of

for (var item of search) {
  console.log('key: ' + item[0] + ', ' + 'value: ' + item[1]);
}

Known Issues

Use with fetch (#18)

Via fetch spec, when passing an URLSearchParams object as a request body, the request should add a header with Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8. But, browsers which have fetch support but no URLSearchParams have no this behavior.

Via the data of caniuse, there are many browsers support fetch but URLSearchParams. They are:

Edge	Chrome	Opera	Samsung Internet	QQ	Baidu
14 - 16	40 - 48	27 - 35	4	1.2	7.12

If you want to be compatible with these browsers, you should add a Content-Type header manually, like below (just an example):

function myFetch(url, {headers = {}, body}) {
    headers = headers instanceof Headers ? headers : new Headers(headers);
    
    if (body instanceof URLSearchParams) {
        headers.set('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8');
    }
    
    fetch(url, {
        headers,
        body
    });
}

LICENSE

MIT license