Accessing Variables in NodeJS

Question

When I do a console.log on the variable event.body it shows article_url=http%3A%2F%2Fow.ly%2Fjo2n30fdI3y

How can I access the value of article_url In other words, I want to access http%3A%2F%2Fow.ly%2Fjo2n30fdI3y

• Jonas Wilms: Where is this coming from? Is it like a url query?
• Script47: What have you tried? Where is your code?

Answer 1

If you actually want to decode the percent encoded characters too, the best way is to use the native node.js querystring module:

const body = require( 'querystring' ).parse( event.body );
const article_url = body.article_url; 
console.log( article_url );

Answer 2

console.log(event.body.split('=')[1])

Answer 3

Simplest approach is probably the following:

var input = "article_url=http%3A%2F%2Fow.ly%2Fjo2n30fdI3y";
var output = input.split("=")[1];
console.log(output) // "http%3A%2F%2Fow.ly%2Fjo2n30fdI3y"