Recommendation for JavaScript URL manipulation library / API

Question

What are your recommendations for JavaScript URL manipulation library / API

Specifically, I would like to

• Extract URL parameters out of a URL string. Ideally, would reflect into a JS object.

• Form URL parameter strings (ideally from a JS Object).

Answer 1

This one is straightforward: http://adamv.com/dev/javascript/querystring

If you have a Querystring object qs, you can use qs.params to get a raw JavaScript object.

Answer 2

I've needed this over and over again. Even though there are lots of good parsers, and lots of good query string manipulators, I still found myself haphazardly reconstructing URLs by pasting pieces together.

To scratch this itch, I wrote jsUri: http://code.google.com/p/jsuri. Solid parsing, fluent manipulation and restringification. Enjoy!