Android app indexing - deep linking for urls with GET params like www.abc.com?parameter=value

Question

I'm creating a intent-filter in order to filter in my app urls like https://www.hotelsclick.com/?hotel_id=135738

I see in the documentation that I should create an intent filter like

 <intent-filter android:label="@string/filter_title_viewgizmos">
     <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
     <!-- Accepts URIs that begin with "http://example.com/gizmos” -->
     <data android:scheme="http"
           android:host="example.com"
           android:pathPrefix="/gizmos" />
     <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
     <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
 </intent-filter>

This intent-filter should filter URLs like "http://example.com/gizmos?1234, http://example.com/gizmos/1234, http://example.com/gizmos/toys/1234"

That's good but... my URL is different, it's like http://example.com?toys=1234 'cause it's got a named GET parameter just in the home page, which is hotel_id.

How can I filter such URLs? Is there some more parameter to put in the intent-filter definition?

Edit: I put the following intent-filter in my Manifest.xml

        <intent-filter android:label="@string/app_name">
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
            <data android:scheme="https"
                android:host="hotelsclick.com" />
            <data android:scheme="http"
                android:host="hotelsclick.com" />
        </intent-filter>

and I CAN open the app by providing this ADB command

adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d "http://hotelsclick.com?hotel_id=135738" com.towers.hotelsclick

BUT it doesn't work from the page self-generated with the deep-link tool: https://developers.google.com/app-indexing/webmasters/test?hl=it

I put in the webpage the following URI in the editText: "android-app://com.towers.hotelsclick/hotelsclick.com?hotel_id=135738" and I got this page: https://applinktest.appspot.com/app-link.html?url=android-app%3A%2F%2Fcom.towers.hotelsclick%2Fhotelsclick.com%3Fhotel_id%3D135738

As you can see the link in the page is intent://#Intent;scheme=hotelsclick.com?hotel_id=135738;package=com.towers.hotelsclick;end and I expected this intent-link to be opened by the app itself when clicked on mobile on the same phone I used for the adb command before. But it doesn't work and takes me straight to the google play store, suggesting to open the app from there

So, since I can make the intent-filter work via ADB but not with a proper link, can I say I succeeded or not?

Thank you

Answer 1

The generated link is not valid. It should be

intent://hotelsclick.com?hotel_id=135738#Intent;scheme=http;package=com.towers.hotelsclick;end

instead of

intent://#Intent;scheme=hotelsclick.com?hotel_id=135738;package=com.towers.hotelsclick;end