def clean_href_target(href_string):
  """Read in a simple href string and return an object
  with the query params from that string"""
  params = {}
  query_string = href_string.split("?")[1]
  for i in query_string.split("&"):
    field_and_arg = i.split("=")
    params[field_and_arg[0]] = field_and_arg[1]
  return params