How to check if the URL contains a given string?

Question

How could I do something like this:

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
    if(window.location.contains("franky")) // This doesn't work, any suggestions?
    {
         alert("your url contains the name franky");
    }
});
</script>

Answer 1

You need add href property and check indexOf instead of contains

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
  $(document).ready(function() {
    if (window.location.href.indexOf("franky") > -1) {
      alert("your url contains the name franky");
    }
  });
</script>

Answer 2

if (window.location.href.indexOf("franky") != -1)

would do it. Alternatively, you could use a regexp:

if (/franky/.test(window.location.href))

Answer 3

You would use indexOf like this:

if(window.location.href.indexOf("franky") != -1){....}

Also notice the addition of href for the string otherwise you would do:

if(window.location.toString().indexOf("franky") != -1){....}

Answer 4

window.location isn't a String, but it has a toString() method. So you can do it like this:

(''+window.location).includes("franky")

or

window.location.toString().includes("franky")

From the old Mozilla docs:

Location objects have a toString method returning the current URL. You can also assign a string to window.location. This means that you can work with window.location as if it were a string in most cases. Sometimes, for example when you need to call a String method on it, you have to explicitly call toString.

Answer 5

like so:

    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function () {
            if(window.location.href.indexOf("cart") > -1) 
            {
                 alert("your url contains the name franky");
            }
        });
    </script>

Answer 6

The regex way:

var matches = !!location.href.match(/franky/); //a boolean value now

Or in a simple statement you could use:

if (location.href.match(/franky/)) {

I use this to test whether the website is running locally or on a server:

location.href.match(/(192.168|localhost).*:1337/)

This checks whether the href contains either 192.168 or localhost AND is followed by :1337.

As you can see, using regex has its advantages over the other solutions when the condition gets a bit trickier.

Answer 7

document.URL should get you the URL and

if(document.URL.indexOf("searchtext") != -1) {
    //found
} else {
    //nope
} 

Answer 8

Try this, it's shorter and works exactly as window.location.href:

if (document.URL.indexOf("franky") > -1) { ... }

also if you want to check the previous URL:

if (document.referrer.indexOf("franky") > -1) { ... }

Answer 9

Easier it gets

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
    var url = window.location.href;
    if(url.includes('franky'))    //includes() method determines whether a string contains specified string.
    {
         alert("url contains franky");
    }
});
</script>

Answer 10

It will be a good practice if you convert your string to lower or uppercase as indexof() method is case sensitive.

This will be if your search isn't case sensitive you can simply use indexOf() method without converting the orignal string to lowercase or uppercase:

var string= location.href;
var convertedString= string.toLowerCase();

if(convertedString.indexOf('franky') != -1)
{
    alert("url has franky");
}
else
{
    alert("url has no franky");
}

Answer 11

I like this approach, instead.

top.location.pathname.includes('franky')

It works in many cases.

Answer 12

Try this:

<script type="text/javascript">             
    $(document).ready
    (
        function () 
        { 
            var regExp = /franky/g;
            var testString = "something.com/frankyssssddsdfjsdflk?franky";//Inyour case it would be window.location;
            if(regExp.test(testString)) // This doesn't work, any suggestions.                 
            {                      
                alert("your url contains the name franky");                 
            }             
        }
    );         
</script> 

Answer 13

Try indexOf

if (foo.indexOf("franky") >= 0)
{
  ...
}

You can also try search (for regular expressions)

if (foo.search("franky") >= 0)
{
  ...
}

Answer 14

Use Window.location.href to take the url in javascript. it's a property that will tell you the current URL location of the browser. Setting the property to something different will redirect the page.

if (window.location.href.indexOf('franky') > -1) {
     alert("your url contains the name franky");
}

Answer 15

I like to create a boolean and then use that in a logical if.

//kick unvalidated users to the login page
var onLoginPage = (window.location.href.indexOf("login") > -1);

if (!onLoginPage) {
  console.log('redirected to login page');
  window.location = "/login";
} else {
  console.log('already on the login page');
}

Answer 16

a window location is an object that contains multiple methods and props some of them is strings related to URL so you can search for the targeted string safely:

const href = location.href;
// "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4597050/how-to-check-if-the-url-contains-a-given-string"

// another option 
const pathname = location.pathname;
// "/questions/4597050/how-to-check-if-the-url-contains-a-given-string"

// search for string safely
pathname.includes("questions"); // true
href.includes("questions"); // true

The Location Object

Answer 17

Put in your js file

                var url = window.location.href;
                console.log(url);
                console.log(~url.indexOf("#product-consulation"));
                if (~url.indexOf("#product-consulation")) {
                    console.log('YES');
                    // $('html, body').animate({
                    //     scrollTop: $('#header').offset().top - 80
                    // }, 1000);
                } else {
                    console.log('NOPE');
                }

Answer 18

Regular Expressions will be more optimal for a lot of people because of word boundaries \b or similar devices. Word boundaries occur when any of 0-9, a-z, A-Z, _ are on that side of the next match, or when an alphanumeric character connects to line or string end or beginning.

if (location.href.match(/(?:\b|_)franky(?:\b|_)))

If you use if(window.location.href.indexOf("sam"), you'll get matches for flotsam and same, among other words. tom would match tomato and tomorrow, without regex.

Making it case-sensitive is as simple as removing the i.

Further, adding other filters is as easy as

if (location.href.match(/(?:\b|_)(?:franky|bob|billy|john|steve)(?:\b|_)/i))

Let's talk about (?:\b|_). RegEx typically defines _ as a word character so it doesn't cause a word boundary. We use this (?:\b|_) to deal with this. To see if it either finds \b or _ on either side of the string.

Other languages may need to use something like

if (location.href.match(/([^\wxxx]|^)(?:franky|bob|billy|john|steve)([^\wxxx]|$)/i))
//where xxx is a character representation (range or literal) of your language's alphanumeric characters.

All of this is easier than saying

var x = location.href // just used to shorten the code
x.indexOf("-sam-") || x.indexOf("-sam.") || x.indexOf(" sam,") || x.indexOf("/sam")...
// and other comparisons to see if the url ends with it 
// more for other filters like frank and billy

^{Other languages' flavors of Regular Expressions support \p{L} but javascript does not, which would make the task of detecting foreign characters much easier. Something like [^\p{L}](filters|in|any|alphabet)[^\p{L}]}

Answer 19

This is my code ♥

function CheckUrl(url) {
var checkA = url.match(/(https|http):\/\/(.*?)\.(.*?)\.(.*?)(\/|'')/g);
var checkP = url.match(/(https|http):\/\/(.*?)\.(.*?)(\/|'')/g);
if (checkA != null || checkP != null) {
    return true;
}
else {
    console.log("Error", "The link is not valid");
}
return false;}

Answer 20

You can use javascript string method match

const url = window.location.href;
const find = 'questions';
const found = url.match(find);

console.log(url);

if(found !== null && found[0] === find){
  console.log('You are in the questions page');
} else {
  console.log('You are not in the questions page');
}

Answer 21

Suppose you have this script

<div>
  <p id="response"><p>
  <script>
    var query = document.location.href.substring(document.location.href.indexOf("?") + 1);
    var text_input = query.split("&")[0].split("=")[1];
    document.getElementById('response').innerHTML=text_input;
  </script> </div>

And the url form is www.localhost.com/web_form_response.html?text_input=stack&over=flow

The text written to <p id="response"> will be stack