How to pass URL Parameters to an embedded Pickaxe (advanced!)

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Here’s how you can Pass URL parameters to your Pickaxe. This is a clever trick that allows your Pickaxe to already know certain things, such as who the user is. @nathaniel coded this up over the weekend.

To this, you’ll have

  • To use a script embed (not an iframe).
  • Then add another script section, which assigns a dict value to PickaxeConfig within the dom of the page.

Here’s an example of what it looks like:

<script>
  window.PickaxeConfig = {
    param1: "Hello World",
    param2: "Goodbye World",
  };
</script>
<script src="https://studio.pickaxe.co/api/embed/bundle.js" defer></script>

Then when you run an action, you can access these values like this:

import json
import os
values = json.loads(os.environ["PICKAXE_FRONTEND_PICKAXE_CONFIG"])

values will contain a dictionary containing your values. You can use the action to read them back, or do other things with them!

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