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AliMaleki
AliMaleki
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February 18, 2016
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Remove Specific Parameters from URL

  • February 18, 2016
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Hi,

Our landing page URLs contain numerous parameters. I would like to populate a variable with a subset of these.

For example:
Original: www.example.com/home.html?st=nc&leadsource=events&product=generic&vendor=abc&vanity_url=example.com-ncevents
Desired: www.example.com/home.html?leadsource=events&product=generic&vanity_url=example.com-ncevents

In this example, I have removed "st=nc" and "vendor=abc" as well as the "&"s.

Our real URLs can contain as much as 15 parameters and they're not always in the same order. I would also need to remove the associated "&" without removing the "?" if it's the first parameter.

Ali

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After posting this I tried something that works but not well enough:

var OrigURL = "www.example.com/home.html?st=nc&leadsource=events&product=generic" var LSPos = OrigURL.indexOf('leadsource'); var LSPosEnd = OrigURL.indexOf('&',LSPos+1); var LSValue = OrigURL.substring(LSPos,LSPosEnd+1); var NewURL = OrigURL.replace(LSValue,""); _satellite.notify("OrigURL: "+OrigURL); _satellite.notify("LSPos: "+LSPos); _satellite.notify("LSPosEnd: "+LSPosEnd); _satellite.notify("LSValue: "+LSValue); _satellite.notify("NewURL: "+NewURL);

This works in removing the leadsource parameter but it has several problems

(1) If .indexof() returns -1 it will continue anyways

(2) It relies on the next "&" which may not exist if it's the last parameter

(3) I need a way to nest multiple of these and have the process continue to other parameters even if one of them is not found.

Ali

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    Best answer by Amit_Kumar

    Ali Maleki wrote...

    Thanks for the reply Amit.

    Where would I use this? In a page load rule? Adobe Analytics Custom Page Code or 3rd party code?

    Can you walk me through the main areas of this?

    Ali

     

    Adobe Analytics Custom Page Code

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    Amit_Kumar
    Amit_Kumar
    Level 10
    February 19, 2016

    Question is that you want to remove certain variables from query string.. use the following sample code and see if this solves your problem.

    I have not tested this so please fix the compiling errors if any.

     

    var qParams; (window.onpopstate = function () { var match, pl     = /\+/g,  // Regex for replacing addition symbol with a space search = /([^&=]+)=?([^&]*)/g, decode = function (s) { return decodeURIComponent(s.replace(pl, " ")); }, query  = window.location.search.substring(1); qParams = {}; while (match = search.exec(query)) qParams[decode(match[1])] = decode(match[2]); })(); // ?st=nc&leadsource=events&product=generic&vendor=abc&vanity_url=example.com-ncevents qParams = { st: "...", vendor: "..", leadsource: "...", product: "...", vanity_url: "..." } // delete all the params you want to delete delete qParams.st; delete qParams.vendor; //if native javascript then use serialize = function(obj, prefix) { var str = []; for(var p in obj) { if (obj.hasOwnProperty(p)) { var k = prefix ? prefix + "[" + p + "]" : p, v = obj[p]; str.push(typeof v == "object" ? serialize(v, k) : encodeURIComponent(k) + "=" + encodeURIComponent(v)); } } return str.join("&"); } //or from Jquery use: var str = jQuery.param( qParams );
      AliMaleki
      AliMalekiAuthor
      Level 4
      February 19, 2016

      Thanks for the reply Amit.

      Where would I use this? In a page load rule? Adobe Analytics Custom Page Code or 3rd party code?

      Can you walk me through the main areas of this?

      Ali

      Amit_Kumar
      Amit_KumarAccepted solution
      Level 10
      February 20, 2016

      Ali Maleki wrote...

      Thanks for the reply Amit.

      Where would I use this? In a page load rule? Adobe Analytics Custom Page Code or 3rd party code?

      Can you walk me through the main areas of this?

      Ali

       

      Adobe Analytics Custom Page Code

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