How to capture URL parameters in request GET

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I am currently defining regular expressions in order to capture parameters in a URL, as described in the tutorial. How do I access parameters from the URL as part the HttpRequest object?

My HttpRequest.GET currently returns an empty QueryDict object.

I'd like to learn how to do this without a library, so I can get to know Django better.
Aug 6, 2020 in Python by kartik
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Hello @kartik,

When a URL is like domain/search/?q=haha, you would use request.GET.get('q', '').

q is the parameter you want, and '' is the default value if q isn't found.

However, if you are instead just configuring your URLconf**, then your captures from the regex are passed to the function as arguments (or named arguments).

Such as:

(r'^user/(?P<username>\w{0,50})/$', views.profile_page,),

Then in your views.py you would have

def profile_page(request, username):
    # Rest of the method

Hope it helps!!
Thank You!!

answered Aug 6, 2020 by Niroj
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