Django Regex matching long url

Question

I have this long url and I want to match the string after ? and have it available in self.kwargs of Class Based View.

new_timer/?UID=046F1572564080&runtime=1102&seconds=30stillrunning=1&numstoredtimes=3&storedtimes=13:2-23:32-48:43&checksum=71

I tried the following and it's not working.

Urlpatterns = [
    # bunch of awesome urls
    url(r'^new_timer/(?P<params>[^/]+)/$',NewTimerView.as_view(),
        name='new_timer'),
]

What am I doing wrong?

"The URLconf searches against the requested URL, as a normal Python string. This does not include GET or POST parameters, or the domain name." https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/topics/http/urls/#what-the-urlconf-searches-against — kichik, May 22 '17 at 19:49

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 22 '17 at 19:45

What am I doing wrong?

Two mistakes in your regex: ^new_timer/(?P<params>[^/]+)/$

Correct regex should be: ^new_timer/\?(?P<params>[^/]+)$

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