Question

How do you access query parameters or the query string in Flask routes? It’s not obvious from the Flask documentation.

The example route /data below illustrates the context that I would like to access that data. If someone requests something like example.com/data?abc=123, I would like access to the string ?abc=123 or to be able to retrieve the value of parameters like abc.

@app.route("/data")
def data():
    # query_string = ???
    return render_template("data.html")

Answer 1

from flask import request

@app.route('/data')
def data():
    # here we want to get the value of user (i.e. ?user=some-value)
    user = request.args.get('user')