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Extracts the query parameters of a URL into an Object. The Object keys are the parameter's names, and its values are the parameter's values. Input values must be of URL or String type.

This function is part of a set of functions for processing URL data.

Basic Usage

URL literal examples:

derive type:single value: URLPARAMS('http://example.com?color=blue&shape=square' ) as: 'myURLParams'

Output: Generates the myURLParams column containing the following Object:

{"color": "blue","shape": "square"}

Column reference example:

derive type:single value: URLPARAMS(myURLs) as: 'myURLParams'

Output: Generates the new myURLParams column containing the query parameters extracted from the URLs in the myURLs column. 

Syntax and Arguments

derive type:single value: URLPARAMS(column_url)

ArgumentRequired?Data TypeDescription
column_urlYstringName of column or String or URL literal containing the parameters and their values to extract

For more information on syntax standards, see Language Documentation Syntax Notes.

column_url

Name of the column or URL or String literal containing the query parameters and their values to extract.

  • Missing input values generate missing results.
  • Multiple columns and wildcards are not supported.

Usage Notes:

 

Required?Data TypeExample Value
YesString literal or column reference (URL)http://www.example.com?q1=hello&q2=goodbye

Examples


Tip: For additional examples, see Common Tasks.

Example - Domain, Subdomain, Host, and Suffix functions

This examples illustrates how you can extract component parts of a URL using the following functions:
  • DOMAIN - extracts the domain value from a URL. See DOMAIN Function.
  • SUBDOMAIN - extracts the first group after the protocol identifier and before the domain value. See SUBDOMAIN Function.
  • HOST - returns the complete value of the host from an URL. See HOST Function.
  • SUFFIX - extracts the suffix of a URL. See SUFFIX Function.
  • URLPARAMS - extracts the query parameters and values from a URL. See URLPARAMS Function.
  • FILTEROBJECT - filters an Object value to show only the elements for a specified key. See FILTEROBJECT Function.

Source:

Your dataset includes the following values for URLs:

URL
www.example.com
example.com/support
http://www.example.com/products/
http://1.2.3.4
https://www.example.com/free-download
https://www.example.com/about-us/careers
www.app.example.com
www.some.app.example.com
some.app.example.com
some.example.com
example.com
http://www.example.com?q1=broken%20record
http://www.example.com?query=khakis&app=pants
http://www.example.com?q1=broken%20record&q2=broken%20tape&q3=broken%20wrist

Transform:

When the above data is imported into the application, the column is recognized as a URL. All values are registered as valid, even the IPv4 address.

To extract the domain and subdomain values:

derive type:single value: DOMAIN(URL) as: 'domain_URL'

derive type:single value: SUBDOMAIN(URL) as:'subdomain_URL'

derive type:single value: HOST(URL) as:host_URL'

derive type:single value: SUFFIX(URL) as:'suffix_URL'

You can use the Alteryx® pattern in the following transform to extract protocol identifiers, if present, into a new column:

extract col:URL on:`{start}%*://`

To clean this up, you might want to rename the column to protocol_URL.

To extract the path values, you can use the following regular expression:

NOTE: Regular expressions are considered a developer-level method for pattern matching. Please use them with caution. See Text Matching.

extract col: URL on: /[^*:\/\/]\/.*$/

The above transform grabs a little too much of the URL. If you rename the column to path_URL, you can use the following regular expression to clean it up:

extract col:path_URL on:/[!^\/].*$/


Delete the path_URL column and rename the path_URL1 column to the deleted one. Then:

derive type:single value: URLPARAMS(URL) as: 'urlParams'

If you wanted to just see the values for the q1 parameter, you could add the following:

derive type:single value: FILTEROBJECT(urlParams,'q1') as: 'urlParam_q1'

 

Results:

For display purposes, the results table has been broken down into separate sets of columns.

Column set 1:

URLhost_URLpath_URL
www.example.comwww.example.com 
example.com/supportexample.com/support
http://www.example.com/products/www.example.com/products/
http://1.2.3.41.2.3.4 
https://www.example.com/free-downloadwww.example.com/free-download
https://www.example.com/about-us/careerswww.example.com/about-us/careers
www.app.example.comwww.app.example.com 
www.some.app.example.comwww.some.app.example.com 
some.app.example.comsome.app.example.com 
some.example.comsome.example.com 
example.comexample.com 
http://www.example.com?q1=broken%20recordwww.example.com 
http://www.example.com?query=khakis&app=pantswww.example.com 
http://www.example.com?q1=broken%20record&q2=broken%20tape&q3=broken%20wristwww.example.com 

Column set 2:

URLprotocol_URLsubdomain_URLdomain_URLsuffix_URL
www.example.com wwwexamplecom
example.com/support  examplecom
http://www.example.com/products/http://wwwexamplecom
http://1.2.3.4http://   
https://www.example.com/free-downloadhttps://wwwexamplecom
https://www.example.com/about-us/careershttps://wwwexamplecom
www.app.example.com www.appexamplecom
www.some.app.example.com www.some.appexamplecom
some.app.example.com some.appexamplecom
some.example.com someexamplecom
example.com  examplecom
http://www.example.com?q1=broken%20recordhttp://wwwexamplecom
http://www.example.com?query=khakis&app=pantshttp://wwwexamplecom
http://www.example.com?q1=broken%20record&q2=broken%20tape&q3=broken%20wristhttp://wwwexamplecom

Column set 3:

URLurlParamsurlParam_q1
www.example.com  
example.com/support  
http://www.example.com/products/  
http://1.2.3.4  
https://www.example.com/free-download  
https://www.example.com/about-us/careers  
www.app.example.com  
www.some.app.example.com  
some.app.example.com  
some.example.com  
example.com  
http://www.example.com?q1=broken%20record{"q1":"broken record"}{"q1":"broken record"}
http://www.example.com?query=khakis&app=pants{"query":"khakis","app":"pants"} 
http://www.example.com?q1=broken%20record&q2=broken%20tape&q3=broken%20wrist{"q1":"broken record", "q2":"broken tape",
"q3":"broken wrist"}
{"q1":"broken record"}

 

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