I think it would be cool if we could initialize input cells from query params. for example: https://beta.observablehq.com/@mbostock/yarn-lock-visualizer?input= <test_lib_yarn_lock_file> would just run @mbostock ’s yarn-lock-visualizer for the lib you pass

We’ve fixed the <base href> of the page to include the query string, so here’s the shortest snippet I know of to parse the query string (using the convenient URLSearchParams ): params = new URLSearchParams(html`<a href>`.search) The nice thing about this approach is that it’ll continue to work if y…

Feature request: initialize input cells from url query params

bumbeishvili August 22, 2018, 4:21pm 2

There is a workaround

https://beta.observablehq.com/@bumbeishvili/initialize-notebook-from-query-string-params?input=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/d3/d3/master/yarn.lock

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Feature request: initialize input cells from url query params

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