Question

I’ve seen various articles and posts on how to use PHP tp grab the search term used to find a site. For example,

Capture search engine keywords in php

How can I also do this with Javascript / jQuery?

Ultimately, I want to grab the keywords and use them for an AJAX request that I already have written and working (for something else similar but different).

Note: This is a new area for me so type slow, spoon feed it, and if ya can, links to more details are always appreciated.

Answer 1

You can use document.referrer to get the url of the previous page url like so:

console.log(document.referrer);

would output something like:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=stack+overflow&aq=0&oq=stack+over&aqi=g10

to just feed to your ajax.