Don't encode urls in querystring stringify

Question

Is there any option for qs.stringify that will not encode the urls?

$ node
> var qs = require("querystring");
undefined
> qs.stringify({"url": "http://domain.com"});
'url=http%3A%2F%2Fdomain.com'

I want the folowing output:

'url=http://domain.com'

This begs a good question: Why? That's not a valid query-string, which is why they're encoded. — Jonathan Lonowski
– Jonathan Lonowski, Commented Aug 28, 2013 at 19:18
@JonathanLonowski I use youtube api and I got an error. I thought that the problem was the encoding of the url, but it wasn't... The problem was that I forgot response_type parameter. :-) Anyway, thanks! — Ionică Bizău
– Ionică Bizău, Commented Aug 29, 2013 at 4:36

J-Dubya · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-11 00:48:33Z

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It's a little late, but for the next person, you can do: querystring.unescape(myString)

answered Jul 11, 2014 at 0:48

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chmac Over a year ago

Just remember that this will also unescape everything else, so %20 will be rendered into ` ` (a literal space) and so on...

Ifch0o1 · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-28 11:44:07Z

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Late answer again, but...
qs.stringify() has option encode:false which actually disable the URI encoding.

Qs.stringify documentation

You can also use it in nodejs request/request module as:

request({
  url: 'http://url.domain'
  qs: {
    qs1: 'thisIsNotEncodedInTheRequest%20://асд'
  },
  qsStringifyOptions: {
    // encoding: false /** (OLD VERSION - I think is deprecated yet) */
    encode: false
  }
});

edited Aug 28, 2020 at 11:44

answered Dec 20, 2015 at 23:47

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stevekrzysiak Over a year ago

It appears to have changed, or always was, to encode as opposed to encoding. So encode: false

Terence Golla Over a year ago

github.com/ljharb/qs#stringifying

Brad Peabody · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-28 19:05:53Z

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Not directly, no. Although, if you are not escaping the value in the query string then there is hardly any benefit to using querystring at all. Mind as well just do: var q = 'url=http://domain.com'

EDIT: From looking at the source, the only way would be to change the behavior of (i.e. overwrite) the querystring escape() function - which is possible but not a good idea.

edited Aug 28, 2013 at 19:05

answered Aug 28, 2013 at 19:00

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Nonoroazoro · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-16 04:31:40Z

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Here is the answer:

qs.stringify({url: "http://domain.com"}, { encodeURIComponent: uri => uri });

The option "encodeURIComponent: uri => uri" is to disable the encoding.

answered May 16, 2016 at 4:31

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dy_ Over a year ago

It still does not work with browserify github.com/mike-spainhower/querystring/issues/4

Ryan · Accepted Answer · 2018-04-25 15:58:41Z

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This worked for me

qs.stringify({url: "http://example.com"}, null, null, { encodeURIComponent: qs.unescape });

edited Apr 25, 2018 at 15:58

answered Apr 25, 2018 at 0:45

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