Thursday, 7 July 2016

javascript - Extracting id value from a facebook url





I want a JavaScript regex to extract the value of an id from facebook profile URL. For example, I have a url



https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004774025067 


and I just want to extract the value after the id= which is the number 100004774025067 part only.



But In some cases I will need the user profile url from a post. For example a user posted something, and if i get the profile url link of the post then I get the link like this:



https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001883994837&hc_ref=ART7eWRecFS8mMIio66GdaH378zlJMXzisnKubh5PtgINeVwTfOil5aBIyff71OamWA 



As you can see, after the value of id there's an additional parameter specified.



I only need to get the id value, no matter what else is in the link.


Answer



You can use the string as a URL and extract the id parameter using searchParams:



Without additional parameters:






var fb_url = "https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004774025067";
var url = new URL(fb_url);
var uid = url.searchParams.get("id");
console.log(uid);






With more parameters:





var fb_url = "https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004774025067&hc_ref=ART7eW";
var url = new URL(fb_url);
var uid = url.searchParams.get("id");
console.log(uid);





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