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Can I obtain the parameters of the website using Brython?

I am currently trying to use Brython for the website I am making, but I cannot get the data from the user for my program.

I set up a box for the user to type in an ID...

<form name="levelid" action="" method="get">
  <input type="text" name="id" id="idresposne">
  <input type="submit" value="Search">
</form>

...then the current method I use is to make it append the URL using the GET method. This makes the URL looks like this.

https://mywebsiteurl.com/website.html?id=12345678

I know I can extract the id parameter using window.location.search and then URLSearchParams in JavaScript, with a code like this. This allows me to use the variable id_i_needed which now holds the argument, 12345678 for the above example URL.

var levelqm = window.location.search;
levelqm = new URLSearchParams(levelqm);
var levelid = levelqm.get("id");

However, I cannot seem to find anything given by the Brython documentation that it can obtain URL information, nor find a way to make Brython communicate with JavaScript.

Is there something that allows me to do a similar thing as the JS code? If this is not possible with Brython, is there a library that I can look for to achieve the same thing?

I wrote the code that processes that ID in Python, which is why I am fiddling with Brython in the first place.

Solution

  • (Thanks to Hernán Alarcón for directing me to this.)

    Because I used the GET request, which will append the parameters to the URL, Brython has an attribute query that searches for URL parameters.

    Using the expression document.query['id'] will give 12345678 for the example URL. This yields the same results as the JavaScript code posted in the question.

    Apparently I missed this page of documentation at Brython.