What is this format? Spaces are separated by + sign and columns are separated by & sign and it’s value is followed by = sign. Can I directly convert it to Spark dataframe?

application/x-www-form-urlencoded is my guess. You programming language should have something (likely in a http library) to convert it to a Map.

Not sure about the spaces being replaced with + instead of %20 (though I've seen it around, it's pretty common, I just don't know what standard it is using)

but otherwise yep, this is just a normal URL query params format, probably coming from a data source like <form> or a js call somewhere with

Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

which literally just dumps fields as query params.

each & separates a key=value pair

not sure about a spark dataframe, but you can literally convert it into a Json by replacing "&" with a (",") and (=) with (":")

so

Key1=Val1&Key2=Val2

turns into

Key1": "Val1", "Key2": "Val2

and then just add {" at the start and "} at the end to get

{"Key1": "Val1", "Key2": "Val2"}

and I bet there's a way to get a spark dataframe from a json these days

@Hazarth The + is pretty standard

I.E. google.com/search?q=two+words

@ThisIsOra ye, I noticed it. Just not personally sure why + over %20 as normal url encoding...

But that's just my inexperience with this

@Hazarth + is i think the older standard as its been around since the beginning, at least early 90s

Looks Like a URL with PHP stuff to be honest

@Ranchonyx now I’m intrigued. Where do you get the PHP from that?

@Hazarth That was very helpful. Thank you!