How do you pass an apostrophe through a URL?

Question

I\'m using Node.js:

var s = \'Who\\\'s that girl?\';
var url = \'http://graph.facebook.com/?text=\' + encodeURIComponent(s);

request(url, POST, ...)
         


        

Answer 1

I'm doing a similar thing (also with Node.js) and first tried using JavaScript's built-in escape() function, but it didn't really work.

Here's how I ended up getting search to work. It might just be a fluke:

 function doMySearch(showTitle) {
     showTitle = escapeShowTitle(showTitle)
     var url = "http://graph.facebook.com/search?q=" + showTitle + "&type=page"
     doSomethingWith(url)
}

function escapeShowTitle(title) {
    title = title.replace(/'/g, "")
    title = escape(title)
    return title
}

doMySearch("America's Funniest home Videos")