# Simple. Pulling Username from URL Parameter to get Single User Record for a Profile Page

**URL:** <https://community.weweb.io/t/simple-pulling-username-from-url-parameter-to-get-single-user-record-for-a-profile-page/2779>\
**Category:** How do I?\
**Tags:** binding, xano\
**Created:** [May 23, 2023, 3:14am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/simple-pulling-username-from-url-parameter-to-get-single-user-record-for-a-profile-page/2779 "2023-05-23T03:14:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![adammiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58956e/32.png) [@adammiko](https://community.weweb.io/u/adammiko)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2023, 3:14am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/simple-pulling-username-from-url-parameter-to-get-single-user-record-for-a-profile-page/2779/1 "2023-05-23T03:14:03Z")

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Need some assistance understanding how to GET user data from a parameter in the page URL and how to pass in that data to the page URL.

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**Author:** ![twinsticks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e274bd/32.png) [@twinsticks](https://community.weweb.io/u/twinsticks)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2023, 6:11am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/simple-pulling-username-from-url-parameter-to-get-single-user-record-for-a-profile-page/2779/2 "2023-05-23T06:11:14Z")

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Hey @adammiko , quick answer is that the variables are listed in the ‘var’ tab when you are binding the data. At 1:19 in the video, you are in the binding config and currently showing the data from the collections, but you can click ‘var’ next to that DB icon to variables.

Now for a longer answer 🙂

Have you watched the weweb academy videos? Really a good place to start and it is fairly quick:  
[https://academy.weweb.io/lessonsection/](https://academy.weweb.io/lessonsection/)

I think you will find that once you get up to speed, you will be just as efficient in weWeb as Bubble, if not faster, plus weWeb mimics real world dev a little closer.

When i approach pulling in data and passing identifiers to other pages to then display detail content, I actually dont use the url paramaters, instead, I use variables and the end points that xano provides.

So when the user clicks on a list item for a specific record (Customer ABC), I save the id of that customer to a variable and then use that variable in my xano collection.

 ![Screenshot 2023-05-22 at 8.08.38 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/weweb/original/2X/4/49cd4b025a6d0650da997b9f8442ac1456449917.jpeg)

You can then set or pull data from variables using the acitons on the element.  
 ![Screenshot 2023-05-22 at 8.09.09 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/weweb/original/2X/c/c14efbf58a99b56fa5a2e9f486de27196e8bc745.png)

Hopefully that did make things more confusing, any questions just ask away.

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**Author:** ![adammiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58956e/32.png) [@adammiko](https://community.weweb.io/u/adammiko)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2023, 7:42pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/simple-pulling-username-from-url-parameter-to-get-single-user-record-for-a-profile-page/2779/3 "2023-05-23T19:42:34Z")

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Hi! Thank you for the thorough response. I actually went through the WeWeb academy program and am still lost on a number of fronts. This is likely because I learned programming in Bubble and not in real world dev.

In response to this portion of the answer: “When i approach pulling in data and passing identifiers to other pages to then display detail content, I actually dont use the url paramaters, instead, I use variables and the end points that xano provides.”

That’s great! But what happens when one of your customers wants to share a product link and there’s no data in the URL for them to be able to share this information with a friend for example?

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**Author:** ![jaredgibb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecd19e/32.png) [@jaredgibb](https://community.weweb.io/u/jaredgibb)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 1:03am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/simple-pulling-username-from-url-parameter-to-get-single-user-record-for-a-profile-page/2779/4 "2023-05-24T01:03:08Z")

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Yooooo. I see you over here! Solid move!!

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**Author:** ![twinsticks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e274bd/32.png) [@twinsticks](https://community.weweb.io/u/twinsticks)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 1:09am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/simple-pulling-username-from-url-parameter-to-get-single-user-record-for-a-profile-page/2779/5 "2023-05-24T01:09:21Z")

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Yep thats a valid use case… just not one you mentioned 🙂

So using the URL parameter works and is easy enough in weWeb.