Best way to parse URL string to get values for keys?

Question

I need to parse a URL string like this one:

&ad_eurl=http://www.youtube.com/video/4bL4FI1Gz6s&hl=it_IT&iv_logging_level=3&ad_flags=0&ends         


        

Answer 1

I'm a bit late, but the answers provided until now didn't work as I needed to. You can use this code snippet:

NSMutableDictionary *queryStrings = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
for (NSString *qs in [url.query componentsSeparatedByString:@"&"]) {
    // Get the parameter name
    NSString *key = [[qs componentsSeparatedByString:@"="] objectAtIndex:0];
    // Get the parameter value
    NSString *value = [[qs componentsSeparatedByString:@"="] objectAtIndex:1];
    value = [value stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"+" withString:@" "];
    value = [value stringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

    queryStrings[key] = value;
}

Where url is the URL you want to parse. You have all of the query strings, escaped, in the queryStrings mutable dictionary.

EDIT: Swift version:

var queryStrings = [String: String]()
if let query = url.query {
    for qs in query.componentsSeparatedByString("&") {
        // Get the parameter name
        let key = qs.componentsSeparatedByString("=")[0]
        // Get the parameter value
        var value = qs.componentsSeparatedByString("=")[1]
        value = value.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString("+", withString: " ")
        value = value.stringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!

        queryStrings[key] = value
    }
}

Answer 2

As full function:

+ (NSString *)getQueryComponentWithName:(NSString *)name  fromURL:(NSURL *)url{

NSString *component = nil;
if (url) {
    NSString *query = url.query;

    NSMutableDictionary *queryStringDictionary = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];
    NSArray *urlComponents = [query componentsSeparatedByString:@"&"];

    for (NSString *keyValuePair in urlComponents){

        NSArray *pairComponents = [keyValuePair componentsSeparatedByString:@"="];
        NSString *key = [[pairComponents firstObject] stringByRemovingPercentEncoding];
        NSString *value = [[pairComponents lastObject] stringByRemovingPercentEncoding];

        [queryStringDictionary setObject:value forKey:key];
    }

    component = [queryStringDictionary objectForKey:name];
}

return component;
}
[self getQueryComponentWithName:@"example" fromURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"https://google.es/?example=test"]];

Answer 3

-(NSArray *)getDataOfQueryString:(NSString *)url{
    NSArray *strURLParse = [url componentsSeparatedByString:@"?"];
    NSMutableArray *arrQueryStringData = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
    if ([strURLParse count] < 2) {
        return arrQueryStringData;
    }
    NSArray *arrQueryString = [[strURLParse objectAtIndex:1] componentsSeparatedByString:@"&"];

    for (int i=0; i < [arrQueryString count]; i++) {
        NSMutableDictionary *dicQueryStringElement = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc]init];
        NSArray *arrElement = [[arrQueryString objectAtIndex:i] componentsSeparatedByString:@"="];
        if ([arrElement count] == 2) {
            [dicQueryStringElement setObject:[arrElement objectAtIndex:1] forKey:[arrElement objectAtIndex:0]];
        }
        [arrQueryStringData addObject:dicQueryStringElement];
    }

    return arrQueryStringData; 
}

You this function just Pass URL and you will get all the element of querystring.

Answer 4

Query property in the NSURL will give the query string. Then you can parse the query string using componentsSeparatedByString

    NSArray *parameters = [[url query] componentsSeparatedByString:@"&"];

    NSMutableDictionary *keyValuePairs = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];

    for (NSString *eachParam in parameters)
    {
        NSArray *QryParts = [eachParam componentsSeparatedByString:@"="];
        if ( [QryParts count] == 2 )
        {
            keyValuePairs[QryParts[0]] = QryParts[1];
        }
        else
        {
            keyValuePairs[QryParts[0]] = QryParts[0];
        }
    }

NSString * name = [keyValuePairs valueForKey:@"name"];
NSString * username = [keyValuePairs valueForKey:@"username"];

Answer 5

edit (June 2018): this answer is better. Apple added NSURLComponents in iOS 7.

I would create a dictionary, get an array of the key/value pairs with

NSMutableDictionary *queryStringDictionary = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
NSArray *urlComponents = [urlString componentsSeparatedByString:@"&"];

Then populate the dictionary :

for (NSString *keyValuePair in urlComponents)
{
    NSArray *pairComponents = [keyValuePair componentsSeparatedByString:@"="];
    NSString *key = [[pairComponents firstObject] stringByRemovingPercentEncoding];
    NSString *value = [[pairComponents lastObject] stringByRemovingPercentEncoding];

    [queryStringDictionary setObject:value forKey:key];
}

You can then query with

[queryStringDictionary objectForKey:@"ad_eurl"];

This is untested, and you should probably do some more error tests.

Answer 6

Swift 5

extension URL {
    func queryParams() -> [String:String] {
        let queryItems = URLComponents(url: self, resolvingAgainstBaseURL: false)?.queryItems
        let queryTuples: [(String, String)] = queryItems?.compactMap{
            guard let value = $0.value else { return nil }
            return ($0.name, value)
        } ?? []
        return Dictionary(uniqueKeysWithValues: queryTuples)
    }
}