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karen 186 posts 461 karma points

Mar 16, 2013 @ 19:04
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get node by umbracoUrlAlias ul
I am using the uComponents method to get a node from the URL:
```
     umbraco.presentation.nodeFactory.Node node = uQuery.GetNodeByUrl(request.RawUrl);
```
and then get some properties of the page

However that is not working if the requested url (from request.RawUrl) is the umbracoUrlAlias

Example:

- the full page is http://localhost/landing-pages/touchpoint-1--woohoo!.aspx

- the umbracoUrlAlias has the page at http://localhost/woo-hoo

using the umbracoUrlAlias, the node.id = -1, so it's not finding the correct node on the call.

So is there a way to get the node from the umbracoUrlAlias? I need to check a property on the page before it is served so I can redirect or not for certain pages for mobile devices.

This is umbraco v 4.0.4.2
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karen 186 posts 461 karma points

Mar 16, 2013 @ 21:20
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Some more thoughts - this is using the older umbraco xml synatx with <node><data> etc.

So I tested this in an xsl to find the ID of the node I want and it works.
```
<xsl:variable name="topLevel" select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::node [@level=1]"/>
woohoo umbraco id=<xsl:value-of select="$topLevel//node[ data[@alias='umbracoUrlAlias'] = 'woo-hoo' ]/@id"/><Br/>
```
Now I am trying to translate that into using uQuery.GetNodesByXPath but I can't figure out the correct syntax, it keeps coming up with 0 nodes

I've tried this various things:
```
var nodes = uQuery.GetNodesByXPath("//*[ data[@alias='umbracoUrlAlias'] = 'woo-hoo' ]");

var nodes = uQuery.GetNodesByXPath("//*/node[ data[@alias='umbracoUrlAlias'] = 'woo-hoo' ]");
```
any ideas on what that syntax should be?
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karen 186 posts 461 karma points

Mar 16, 2013 @ 21:57
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ok, finally found a solution.

This worked:
```
var nodes = uQuery.GetNodesByXPath("//node[ data[@alias='umbracoUrlAlias'] = 'woo-hoo' ]");
```
so to translate, you have to remove the / from the beginning of RawUrl
```
string sUrl = request.RawUrl.Substring(1);
```
```
var nodes = uQuery.GetNodesByXPath("//node[ data[@alias='umbracoUrlAlias'] = '" + sUrl + "' ]");
```
and then check if nodes.Count > 0 and get nodes[0]
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Charles Afford 1163 posts 1709 karma points

Mar 17, 2013 @ 10:25

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Hi, why are you using uQuery to get the Node by Url? Charlie :)

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karen 186 posts 461 karma points

Mar 17, 2013 @ 17:51

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Charlie - how else would I do it? When I google ' how to get umbraco node by url ' that is the only solution I could find.

If you know of a better solution - please share!

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Stephen 767 posts 2273 karma points c-trib

Mar 17, 2013 @ 19:02

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What version of Umbraco is that?

In _theory_ starting with 4.11 it should work 'out of the box' including supporting umbracoUrlAlias.

Stephan

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Charles Afford 1163 posts 1709 karma points

Mar 17, 2013 @ 19:19

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Hi, Karen was just wondering why you were choosing the url or the id for instance? Charlie :)

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karen 186 posts 461 karma points

Mar 17, 2013 @ 19:33

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Stephan - in the original post - This is umbraco v 4.0.4.2. Not sure what version of uComponents.

Charlie - I am not sure what you are asking? Each page has individual settings, so I need figure out what the settings for the page they are asking for are.

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Charles Afford 1163 posts 1709 karma points

Mar 17, 2013 @ 19:39

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ah ok, its becuase i think i was told that uQuery.GetNodeByUrl(request.RawUrl); is not encrypted, thus it is not tamper proof if it is a public faceing website.

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