Get The (Actual) Current URL

[PoshoDev]

Question

Hello there, 🙂

I'm trying to get the current URL that is being used on a browser for monitoring purposes on a site I'm working on. I'm currently using the following approach:

from nicegui import context, ui


@ui.page("/{user}/{pet}")
def page_home(user: str, pet: str, source: str = None):
    print(context.client.page.path)

ui.run()

Browser URL:

http://127.0.0.1:8080/joe/truffles?source=local

Output:

/{user}/{pet}

The problem with this is that is that I can't truly see what the user accessed. I could implement some sort of parsing function that could interpret the parameter injection from the ui.page definition based on the variables' values, but there would still be the issue that if an user inserts a ? parameter that I'm not contemplating I will never be able to see it. 🤔

Before I implement something, I want to ask if there's an actual proper NiceGUI approach for this.

Thanks for reading!

[falkoschindler]

Hi @PoshoDev,

Luckily you can access the current FastAPI request object which contains the requested URL:

@ui.page("/{user}/{pet}")
def page_home(user: str, pet: str, source: str = None):
    print(ui.context.client.request.url)

Apart from the complete URL it contains useful properties like base_url, path_params, query_params etc.

[PoshoDev]

Thank you very much! This is exactly what I needed! 😁