Url decode UTF-8 in Python

Question

I have spent plenty of time as far as I am newbie in Python  How could I ever decode such a URL   example com title  D0 BF D1 80 D0 B0 D0 B2 D0 BE D0 B2 D0 B0 D1 8F  D0 B7 D0 B0 D1 89 D0 B8 D1 82 D0 B0   to this one in python 2 7  example com title                     url urllib unquote url encode  utf8    is returning something very ugly   Still no solution  any help is appreciated

User · Answer

You can achieve an expected result with requests library as well:

import requests

url = "http://www.mywebsite.org/Data%20Set.zip"

print(f"Before: {url}")
print(f"After:  {requests.utils.unquote(url)}")

Output:

$ python3 test_url_unquote.py

Before: http://www.mywebsite.org/Data%20Set.zip
After:  http://www.mywebsite.org/Data Set.zip

Might be handy if you are already using requests, without using another library for this job.

User · Answer

The data is UTF-8 encoded bytes escaped with URL quoting  so you want to decode  with urllib parse unquote    which handles decoding from percent-encoded data to UTF-8 bytes and then to text  transparently   from urllib parse import unquote  url   unquote url    Demo    gt  gt  gt  from urllib parse import unquote  gt  gt  gt  url    example com title  D0 BF D1 80 D0 B0 D0 B2 D0 BE D0 B2 D0 B0 D1 8F  D0 B7 D0 B0 D1 89 D0 B8 D1 82 D0 B0   gt  gt  gt  unquote url   example com title                    The Python 2 equivalent is urllib unquote    but this returns a bytestring  so you d have to decode manually   from urllib import unquote  url   unquote url  decode  utf8

User · Answer

If you are using Python 3  you can use urllib parse  url      example com title  D0 BF D1 80 D0 B0 D0 B2 D0 BE D0 B2 D0 B0 D1 8F  D0 B7 D0 B0 D1 89 D0 B8 D1 82 D0 B0     import urllib parse urllib parse unquote url    gives    example com title

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