Getting values from query string in an url using AngularJS $location

Question

Regarding $location.search, the docs say,

Return search part (as object) of current url when called without any parameter.

In my

Answer 1

$location.search() returns an object, consisting of the keys as variables and the values as its value. So: if you write your query string like this:

?user=test_user_bLzgB

You could easily get the text like so:

$location.search().user

If you wish not to use a key, value like ?foo=bar, I suggest using a hash #test_user_bLzgB ,

and calling

$location.hash()

would return 'test_user_bLzgB' which is the data you wish to retrieve.

Additional info:

If you used the query string method and you are getting an empty object with $location.search(), it is probably because Angular is using the hashbang strategy instead of the html5 one... To get it working, add this config to your module

yourModule.config(['$locationProvider', function($locationProvider){
    $locationProvider.html5Mode(true);    
}]);