# Getting document.URL

**URL:** <https://talk.observablehq.com/t/getting-document-url/2110>\
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**Created:** [July 2, 2019, 1:14pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/getting-document-url/2110 "2019-07-02T13:14:09Z")\
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This should work:

```auto
Object.assign(document.createElement("a"), {href: ""}).hash

```

Edit: actually it won’t because we don’t pass the hash down to the worker. So, you’ll need to use the query string, at least for now.

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