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

Had the same problem, encodeURIComponent didn't encode single quote. The trick is to do the replacement of ' with %27, after the encoding:

var trackArtistTitle = encodeURIComponent("Johnny Vegas - Who's Ready Fo'r Ice Cre'am")
// result: Johnny%20Vegas%20-%20Who's%20Ready%20Fo'r%20Ice%20Cre'am
trackArtistTitle = trackArtistTitle.replace(/'/g, '%27')
// result: Johnny%20Vegas%20-%20Who%27s%20Ready%20Fo%27r%20Ice%20Cre%27am

This way, trackArtistTitle will be properly decoded on server i.e. with PHP using urldecode().

Answer 2

You can encode the single quote as specified in this link http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/ref_urlencode.asp

Answer 3

I know this doesn't address the OP's question, but for those coming here with OData Query related questions, note that the escape character is yet another single quote.

unescapedValue.replace(/'/g, '\'\'')

This assumes you have already performed an encodeURIComponent(unescapedValue) on your string

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4483742/2831961

Answer 4

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")