How to get URL parameters with Javascript? [duplicate]

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How can I get query string values in JavaScript?

Javascript does not provide a core method to do that, so how to do it?

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Use the URL.js library - Anirudh Ramanathan

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function getURLParameter(name) {
  return decodeURIComponent((new RegExp('[?|&]' + name + '=' + '([^&;]+?)(&|#|;|$)').exec(location.search) || [null, ''])[1].replace(/\+/g, '%20')) || null;
}

So you can use:

myvar = getURLParameter('myvar');