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How can we hide the id from URL

my current URL is:
http://example.com/country/state/location/ls5/a1392f1d-1aee-470c-a159-07e6da071620
but what I want in my URL is: http://example.com/country/state/location/ls5
so how can we do it?I am having trouble with it. please guide me for the solution

if you need the id to identify a record, then encrypt the id and use
something else that does not identify your record directly...
if you are not using the id, just remove it...
to answer your question fairly, everyone uses id in url in one way or
another, even stackoverflow ::
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48515076/how-can-we-hide-the-id-from-url,
the id 48515076

Using a slug in URL & ID to query DB in MVC

I am trying to use slugs in an MVC web application but can seem to work out the best way to implement them.
I have found the the recommendation on how to create the URL friendly slug stackoverflow slug post
I still want to be able to query the Db with the ID but don't want this to be in the URL similarly to most stackoverflow URLs, for example
http://website/home/list/outdoor-products
How can a slug be displayed in the URL while still passing and using an ID to be used to query with?

It's doesn't really depends on a technology/framework which you are using, the main thing is you have to have destinctive urls to unambiguously select page content.
If you do have unique titles/slugs for pages, then you may use them as identity for content selection. Otherwise, you need to put some sort of id (it could be int or guid, whatever) into your urls. There isn't anything which will hide your int id behind the slug.
Talking about stakoverflow's urls, you'll find id just before the friendly title. Another option could be put actual id at the end of friendly title (friendly-title-1559063).

query a website and retrive public data from it

I am really new in c# programming. I would like some help from you guys (if possible). I have a website (it is a shopping website ) with data : products, price, description...etc. What I would like to do is: Since the website has a search capability so I would like to get the data from it by querying the search link and get only the important data (product id, name, price and description). When I perform the search I get many pages, and every time I press next I get new page with extra list of products. How can I simply make automation of these tasks?
I searched a lot over internet I found that I need to use webclient() with regular expression, and I thought that maybe a loop over the page content and over the search result pages would be necessary.
what do you think guys?
Website Example.
I´ll appreciate any effort from your side.

What you're describing is called scraping.
What you'll want is to use something like HtmlAgilityPack to get the website. Then you find the nodes you're interested in by using the DOM, and reading their inner text.
The whole process is rather complicated, but at least I've sent you off in the right direction. For the most part, search urls tend to have the same format.
In your link for instance
http://cdon.se/hemelektronik/advanced-search?manufacturer-id=&title=.&title-matchtype=1&genre-id=&page-size=15&sort-order=142&page=2
You can change 'page' to be smething else and you can go through all the pages that way.
Added:
Also don't TRY to use regex to parse html. It drove one particular person mad...
RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

ASP.NET MVC / C# - String to valid URL characters?

I don't know how to ask this, and I don't know what it is called either so I'll just describe what I want to achieve.
In the database, some articles' title originaly has spaces:
my title with spaces
But in the url, spaces are replaced by other characters such as plus sign (+) or underscore (_)
http://www.mydomain.com/mycontroller/myaction/my_title_with_spaces
or
http://www.mydomain.com/mycontroller/myaction/my+title+with+spaces
Now, how do you do that in C#? Or is there any helper in ASP.NET MVC that can do something like that?
Let say we achieved the said URL, is there any risk that two unique titles become the same in the URL? Please consider these titles:
Title's
Titles
after parsing, they became the same
Titles
Titles
This will be a problem when retrieving the article from the database since I'll get two results, one for "Title" and one for "Title's".

I would implement that functionality like this:
1. When creating a new article, generate the URL representation based on the title.
Use a function that converts the title for a suitable representation.
For example, the title "This is an example" might generate something like "This_is_an_example".
This is up to you. You can create a function that parses the title with rules you define, or use an existing one if it suits better your problem.
2. Ensure the URL representation is unique
If it's going to be an ID, it must be unique. So, when creating new articles you must query your database for the resulting URL representation. If you get a result from the database, it means the newly created article generated the same representation as one of the already created articles. Add something to it so it remains unique.
This could be something like "This_is_an_example_2". In this case, we added the "_2" to the end of the generated representation so it differs from the already existing one. Once more, with each change you have to ensure this representation remains unique.
3. Save the created ID in the database, along with the article data
In the database be sure to save the "This_is_an_example" ID and relate it to the article. Maybe even as the table primary key?
4. Query the database for the correct article
Now, about showing a site visitor the correct article:
When a visitor asks for the following resource, for example:
http://www.mydomain.com/mycontroller/myaction/this_is_an_example_2
Extract the URL part that identifies the article, in this case "this_is_an_example_2".
When you have that, you have the identifier of the article in the database. So, you can query the database for the article with the "this_is_an_example_2" ID and show the article's content to the user.
This might involve some URL rewriting. Unfortunately I'm unable to help you with that in asp.NET. Some search on the subject will surely help you.

ASP.Net MVC - route object id == title - how to deal with duplicates?

Web pages have moved to use URLs like:
//weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/12/03/asp-net-mvc-framework-part-2-url-routing.aspx
i.e. they include the title of the page in the url rather than having some coded id.
I understand that this is useful for SEO, and also for users in finding the correct page where they wish to type in the url.
I would like to follow this approach, but wonder how best to acheive it, and particularly how to deal with duplicates.
Is a database trigger which creates the url based on the title and adds a numeric incremental suffix to any duplicates the best way to go, and if so what would such a trigger look like?

Instead of having an id based on a title they could use id based on both a date and a title (2007/12/03/asp-net-mvc-framework-part-2-url-routing). So if you don't have articles with the same titles in one day (which isn't too severe restriction) duplicates are eliminated.

In Wordpress at least, the "slug" (as they call it) is generated once from the item's title and stored separately in the database. If two "slugs" collide, it appends -1, -2, etc. to the end. I personally prefer if you add an (optional) field to the submission form to allow people to insert their own—it allows people to specify a shorter URL than my-long-article-is-hard-to-type.

You've got to model this concept in your application. URL generation based on title can be automatic, but it can't be invisible. WordPress (and probably other CMS's, too) do a pretty good job of this -- they'll default a URL based on the information you enter, but the "key" part of the URL is visible and editable to the user, and uniqueness is enforced at the appropriate level (globally, per month, per day -- whatever).
Making URL generation completely invisible will lead to confusing errors for the user, I believe.

You could do the same thing that SO does. That is, the slug is only there as GoogleJuice. These two URLs resolve to the same thing:
ASP.Net MVC - route object id == title - how to deal with duplicates?
ASP.Net MVC - route object id == title - how to deal with duplicates?
So, in the example you gave, if the CMS gave each post a unique numeric identifier (which I suppose is quite likely) then you can include it in the URL:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/12/03/1234/asp-net-mvc-framework-part-2-url-routing
In this example, the symbol 1234 is the post's identifier.