What does "&s" do in the API call in ReactJS

Question

const searchMovies=async(title)=>{
    const response =await fetch(`${API_URL}&s=${title}`)
    const data = await response.json();
    setMovies(data.Search)
   }

What is &s inside the API call? What does it do?

I tried Googling for answers but couldn't find any.

google for "query-string parameter". – Dai Jul 16 '23 at 06:13 — Dai, Jul 16 '23 at 06:13

kzi · Answer 1 · 2023-07-16T07:22:53.433

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The & sign is a separator for query parameters in a URL. In your sample s is a query parameter. But maybe the API_URL already contains other query parameters, because before the first parameter usually has to be a ? sign like in this URL of a google search: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=test where client is the first parameter (with the value firefox-b-d) and q is the second (with the value test).

edited Jul 16 '23 at 07:22

answered Jul 16 '23 at 06:17

kzi

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yes thank you so much, I went and looked at the documentation of that API and it did ask for another parameter "s" which is the search parameter. Sorry for such a lame question haha. – Aries Ha Jul 16 '23 at 06:33

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 16 '23 at 06:20

It's part of a query-string which is a component of a universal resource locator (URL), and it is used to separate multiple queries. See parameters.

If you want to work with query strings in JS, try the URLSearchParams interface, which is part of the web API

What does "&s" do in the API call in ReactJS

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