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Siddharth
Siddharth

Reputation: 13

How to append user input from front end (i.e. HTML form) to the url

I have a basic HTML form which includes a text box and a submit button. Let us say, the user types an input to the input box. I want to append that input to the existing URL of the home page.

Example: The URL of the home page be "localhost/home" and the user inputs "data" into the text box.

On the click of submit button, the URL should append the input and look something like: "localhost/home/data" (upon displaying the result fetched from backend using flask).

So, technically when I click submit, I want to be redirected to "localhost/home/data".

I'm using the below HTML form.

    <form action="/home" method="POST">
        <input type=text name="name">
        <input type=submit name="submit">
    </form>

and using this as the flask code snippet:

    @app.route('/home', methods=['POST', 'GET'])
    def basic():
        if request.method == 'POST':
            path = (my path to json file)
            with open(path) as f:
                data = json.load(f)
            format_list=data[name]
            return format_list

        return render_template('temp.html')

How can I get the inputted parameters from the form appended to the URL? Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 546

Answers (1)

Maximilian Burszley
Maximilian Burszley

Reputation: 19684

When you use form submission with flask, the form is exposed on the flask object as a flask.request.form python dictionary. From here, you can access what was POSTed to your endpoint:

@app.route('/home', methods=['POST', 'GET'])
def basic():
    if request.method == 'POST':
        path = request.form['name']

Do note you should be giving your input fields id attributes:

<input id="name" name="name">

If you want to append this to a path or something of that nature, then you can further look into flask.redirect.

Upvotes: 0

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