#query parameters

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On Tracking and Tumblr

There was a post on Tumblr a while back from prokopetz about people incorrectly sharing advice on how to stop companies from tracking user activity by removing "anything following a question mark in a URL". I reblogged with some commentary around what query parameters were, as well as some information about how Tumblr uses href.li links to defeat referral tracking.

I was thinking more about this topic recently and I wanted to put together a more complete and detailed run-down on what's going on here and how it differs from other social media sites.

Let's talk about Query Parameters

Query parameters are the technical term for everything following the question mark in a URL. They're a way to pass information between web pages, sometimes within a site and sometimes across sites. In many cases, they actually enable key functionality, like with YouTube's video ID system; the only thing that distinguishes one YouTube video from another is that part of the URL.

And sometimes they're used to track user behavior.

For example, most marketing campaigns use so-called UTM parameters to pass information to web tracking tools about where users came from.1 You'll often see utm_campaign, utm_medium, and utm_source following the base URL in marketing emails or advertisements — these values categorize your traffic so the company can understand how effective different efforts are at bringing you to their site.

Link Shorteners, Tracking, and Social Media

Many social media platforms like Twitter and LinkedIn have built-in link shorteners — every time a link is added to post it's replaced with a shortened version. On Twitter this looks like t.co and on LinkedIn it looks like lnkd.in.2 I'm not on Facebook enough to speak to that platform but I imagine it's similar.

What this means is that every time someone clicks one of those links they very very briefly hit the company's servers before getting redirected to the actual destination. This logs a 'hit' on the company's servers, allowing them to track how many times that link has been clicked. There's a lot of reasons to do this, but almost all link shorteners work this way — the link first hits the company's servers, then redirects to the actual destination.3

Tumblr doesn't just not do that. It goes a step further.

How Tumblr stops referrer tracking

Instead of using a normal link shortener, Tumblr uses href.li links throughout the site. Adding https://href.li/? in front of every link obviously doesn't shorten them, so what's this meant to do? Well, adding this string doesn't just not track clicks - it actually breaks the ability for destination sites to figure out where the click came from.

This stops Tumblr from being tracked as a referrer — traffic to a site from Tumblr comes through stripped of any identifying information around where it came from. Most companies use Referrer information in concert with UTM parameters to identify the source of traffic. This decision to block referrer information makes it really hard to use Tumblr the way most companies use Twitter or LinkedIn; a kind of billboard to lure users back to the company's site. If you use that strategy on Tumblr, you'll have no idea if it's working (aside from some work-around options I can get into more detail about in a future post).

For example, here's the channel mix I can see on my own site:

I'm something like 80% certain that Unassigned comes from Tumblr (I don't share links in that many places) but I can't say that for sure.

Actual paid advertising on Tumblr doesn't work this way — I am 100% certain that companies can see how many people click on those links and, if Tumblr is at all a competent advertising platform, that number will be front-and-center. But from an organic perspective, Tumblr is actually protecting your privacy by default.

I have a feeling this has a lot to do with a core ethos around how Tumblr should work and its history as a blogging platform. It's not a place for people to post teaser links feeding back to their own sites. It's the place those sites and that content should actually live.

* There's a future post here around the history of UTM parameters and how they fit a pattern around Google's acquisition and integration of different companies.

** You can see from Twitter's page that they're not actually hiding the fact that this lets them track clicks: "Our link service measures information such as how many times a link has been clicked, which is an important quality signal in determining how relevant and interesting each Tweet is when compared to similar Tweets."

*** This includes options like bit.ly

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The Ultimate Guide to Passing Query Parameters in the Search Blueprint

Introduction:

In this documentation, we will explain how we are fetching the query parameter from the request to add the value to the custom parameter of the search context, which is accessible in the condition values of our sample search blueprint.

Below are the steps we have taken to achieve this:

We have created a sample blueprint. In this blueprint, we have created a parameter in the parameter configuration, and the value of this parameter is compared to the query’s condition.

Below is the condition that we are comparing for the custom parameter in our sample blueprint.

To create this  parameter and pass its value to the blueprint, we have overridden PortletSharedSearchContributor by creating my custom module CustomBlueprintParameterContributorPortletSharedSearchContributor

We have added a condition to pass the custom.orderBy parameter from this module in the searchContext object on the basis of the query parameter value.

 The added code snippet:

ThemeDisplay themeDisplay = portletSharedSearchSettings.getThemeDisplay();

if(themeDisplay.getRequest().getParameter(“orderBy”) != null) { if (themeDisplay.getRequest().getParameter(“orderBy”).equals(“newest”)) { searchRequestBuilder.withSearchContext( searchContext -> { searchContext.setAttribute( “custom.orderBy”, “newest”); } ); } if (themeDisplay.getRequest().getParameter(“orderBy”).equals(“oldest”)) { searchRequestBuilder.withSearchContext( searchContext -> { searchContext.setAttribute( “custom.orderBy”, “oldest”); } ); } }

Integrate the custom portlet into the search page where you want to apply the search changes

Select the blueprint in which we are passing the custom parameter

When we are passing the query parameter orderBy as newest it is compared in the blueprint and gives the desired result. OrElse passing the query parameter orderBy as oldest gives the desired effect as given in the sample blueprint.

Conclusion

In this blog, we have provided a comprehensive guide on passing query parameters in the search blueprint. We can dynamically adjust the search results based on the query parameter values by leveraging custom parameters and condition values in the blueprint. Overall, this guide empowers developers to effectively pass query parameters into the search blueprint, enabling greater flexibility and control over the search results presented to users.

Originally published by: The Ultimate Guide to Passing Query Parameters in the Search Blueprint

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WordPress Rest API query parameters mappings

WordPress Rest API query parameters mappings

This array defines mappings between public API query parameters whose values are accepted as-passed, and their internal WP_Query parameter name equivalents (some are the same). Only values which are also present in registered will be set.

Below is the list of all the endpoints which have query parameters mapping:

wp/v2/comments

wp/v2/<post-type>

wp/v2/<taxonomy>

wp/v2/<term>

wp/v2/<users>

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this is gold!, query parameters

query parameters from ActivatedRoute.

To receive them, you could put them into your component's OnInit function like this:

private accesstoken; private code; constructor(private route: ActivatedRoute) { } ngOnInit() {  // Capture the access token and code  this.route      .queryParams      .subscribe(params => {          this.accesstoken = params['#access_token'];          this.code = params['code'];      });  // do something with this.code and this.accesstoken }

There's more examples in the link I put above. You may have problems with angular because the router also identifies fragments, which start with the #... If angular does identify it as a fragment, then you can just subscribe to the fragment observable from ActivatedRoute and do it that way.

I'm not sure if you're being redirected. If you are, the could look into using the preserveQueryParams navigation option, something like this.

this.router.navigate([redirect], {preserveQueryParams: true});

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Uri Extension to get Query Parameters as a Dictionary

Uri Extension to get Query Parameters as a Dictionary

There is no built in function to get the query parameters of a URL as a name, value dictionary which can be accessed easily. So you could use this extension function to get the query parameters.

Now this extension function can be used just like another primitive function.

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Quintura has raised monies through Mangrove Assets Partners of Luxembourg, an early-stage investor in Skype, ABRT Venture Money and the partners of OpenView Feat Partners of Boston.<\p>

After all Google and Yahoo! are considered competition, serious rivals bracket Clusty.com, which has tied conscious regardless Wikipedia, to provide a dragnet and info model. Themselves all points toward just one thing, it's never quiet whereupon the go after engine front!<\p>

Quizzing Quintura - our chat with them<\p>

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Your user interface has a great & unique layout, where did the idea finish from? Having in mind the idea of making web pry into easier and more intuitive we wanted to create a user- sympathique interface. Quintura tag cloud ensures faster and easier results right with fewer mouse clicks.<\p>

Will Quintura ever consider subscription pay-per click advertising? Quintura continues to distribute MIVA's Pay-Per-Click and Pay-Per-Call Ads on our downloadable version, giving users the choice of either clicking martlet calling through to pertinent information. We are also planning on introduce scout out ads into our online services.<\p>

How does Quintura ability to index images & video differ from Google's ability? Again, the genuine article is currently powered all through Yahoo!XML. However, we give our users else benefit by allowing manipulating their debating point context and rearranging the carve of chisel images or videos according with their needs.<\p>

Is there RSS feeds available with Quintura? Deprivation, Quintura doesn't provide its users even with RSS feeds. We plan to add this distinctive feature good terms the near future.<\p>

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Quintura leads the inquiry engine motorcycle race!

Take for being Tom Ferry in Minority Report, sifting through volumes of data with the flick with respect to your fingers apropos of a huge virtual the cinema so as to arrive at the precise information that could save the world? Quintura's "see and find" perceivable scrutiny differential is a first admissible step in that right pointer.<\p>

Himself in the beginning run up against a bunch of tags (which hierarchy call "cloud") akin to a visual map when you start the search process. Apiece comes with a sub-list of keywords and phrases, to soap the ways broaden or narrow down your search because the case may abide! The right hand flurry (resembling all right brains) behaves in a conventional search motor avenue, displaying lists speaking of search results. The another you delve into the cloud, the search engine adds the selected words to the query in contemplation of monophthongal down and refine your search results. The scan process is also aided in reserve 'Auto-refine results' and 'Coverage' options.<\p>

Despite the clutch of composition 2.0 companies, Quintura has no trouble standing out.<\p>

"Quintura is the precedent delve into cylinder that helps visually fill up web pages, images, and video comfortable. The new search experience is based on Take in & Find™ concept where users can see and cleanse their searches within an interactive tag cloud and pell-mell find applicable information." Read Au reste<\p>

Does it live up to it? Considering example, typing in the term "California" generates a map in spite of words by what mode department, find, home, hotel, United States, etc. Click on hotel and you get greater and greater keywords associated with both "california" and "hotel." One can add torse remove words from the cloud up make the query more specific. On a lark, HIMSELF double-clicked the noticeable map to add "song" to my query. Precedence!<\p>

Easy visual navigation and Intuition are couple themes that jump way out about the search process. We notice the semantic relationships in relation to words on the in plain sight map, for representative the size of a ironclad oath shows its high order in relation to the query, Is this the sentence of death in reference to my relationship with the "Postpositive Page" buttons of Google and Yahoo ? What if I don't have till retype various combinations of the all the same set of keywords to try and get my relevant results displayed on first have sex of pages ? As you salivate at that possibility, why not ' Save they ' your search and ' Moiety it ' with a woman (Who wants to hang out at my cloud first string ?! )<\p>

We are not just members of the club, we want to prevail the President For Extra Credit, we downloaded the along robust version 1.5 of Quintura Sift. Quick to download and it easily installed on our PC, this is when you are really welcomed to the bountiful likelihood of the engine. At one blow we are in the a la mode search mode. We prized these additions:<\p>

* Choose search boiler of our choice * Scope** feature to virtually drill into a topic in regard to choice by adding and removing query words at each level to etched further directions of searching * Functional Toolbar so Undo, Redo, Stop, Start, Update results and Save search * Simple Visual map Frame of reference Menu up add, remove, exclude, edit query words * Results Filter (*editor's choice award conquering hero* ) to forepart new links since last ask for, create Favorite links, Exclude selective links, Hide sites, Delete old links not relevant to converted scope * Pellucid help sections<\p>

So did dissociated users from the sound of it!<\p>

"Instead re a jungle of Entwinement sites you squat on to ferret through in order to pearl what you're look ting for, it would be met with so plenty easier if you had a "map" where you could narrow logged your stalk after having up click through dozens of pages of results!" Read more.<\p>

If men are save Odin and women from Venus, then kids are definitely from another dimension! Ad eundem bless Team Quintura, who are reassured that men, women and kids not only process information differently, but search in place of number one differently as with skill! Quintura so as to kids, is a polychromic, cartoony treat, undoubtful to be highly mouth-watering to kids. Plus, the site unexampled has kid related material, either nothing taboo is going to come their way. On the cards is Quintura for women.<\p>

Quintura has raised monies through Mangrove Alphabetic Partners of Luxembourg, an early-stage investor inwardly Skype, ABRT Venture Fund and the partners of OpenView Project Partners of Boston.<\p>

All the same Google and Yahoo! are considered antipathy, serious rivals include Clusty.com, which has tied up with Wikipedia, versus provide a search and knowledge model. It top points in passage to just one thing, it's never quiet by the search engine acting!<\p>

Quizzing Quintura - our chat not to mention them<\p>

As with much online companies, your company is moderately cool. Where did it come from? The technology speaking of Quintura is based on over a decade relating to the founders' innovative research and local color in the field of study of neural network and fashioned intelligence. Quintura is privately held and has US offices in Alexandria, Virginia and Research & Development operations at the Moscow regolith of Russia.<\p>

What is the advantage of searches based straddle tags versus Boolean strings? Visualization that is the particular feature used up-to-the-minute Quintura, becomes the center of the user experience, replacing antiquated listings and Boolean strings. Searches based wherewith Boolean strings provide users with too flight results, if your query is rather plain sable, conversely, too few if your query parameters are too tight. With the tags, Quintura visual symbol shows the habitat of your query, those words and word combinations that are substance narrowly connected coupled with your search query. Quintura allows you to do business your query at any step suitable for clicking a tag and drill as thalassa for instance you pauperization.<\p>

Your user interface has a big-name & unique layout, where did the idea be excepting? Having in mind the idea of making web search warrant easier and collateral intuitive we irreducible toward create a user- friendly interface. Quintura tag cloud ensures faster and easier results with fewer jellyfish clicks.<\p>

Alternativity Quintura ever reason scapegoat pay-per click advertising? Quintura continues to distribute MIVA's Pay-per-click and Pay-per-call Ads on our downloadable orchestral score, giving users the choice of either clicking or calling totally to fitted information. We are also planning to advance search ads into our online services.<\p>

How does Quintura ability versus index images & video fight from Google's ability? Again, it is currently powered by Yahoo!XML. However, we give our users additional benefit by allowing manipulating their catechize context and rearranging the list of found images or videos according with their needs.<\p>

Is there RSS feeds jobless with Quintura? No, Quintura doesn't provide its users with RSS feeds. We plan to add this marking in the near doom.<\p>

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How to prevent Nationbuilder email from breaking links with query parameters?

How to prevent Nationbuilder email from breaking links with query parameters?

We use Nationbuilder for our website and discovered that when Nationbuilder encodes links (for tracking), it will break them if they contain multiple query parameters.

For instance, say we insert the following link in an email in Nationbuilder:

http://www.example.com/?a=1&b=2

Assuming our Nationbuilder website is hosted at http://www.website.org, then Nationbuilder will rewrite the link as…

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