Convert relative URL to fully qualified URL using Python

Question

I'm looking for a way to fully qualify a URL using Python. I have my current page URL, such as:

http://www.foo.com/Stuff/Mike/Doc.html

and I have my href, such as:

href="../Bob/Doc.html"

What I need to build is:

http://www.foo.com/Stuff/Bob/Doc.html

Does Python have any libraries that can parse paths like this? I looked around the docs for urllib and urllib2, but couldn't find anything like that. Thanks!

possible duplicate of Resolving a relative url path to its absolute path — Acorn
– Acorn, Commented Sep 19, 2011 at 12:51

cheeken · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-19 00:32:50Z

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Use the urlparse library.

>>> import urlparse
>>> urlparse.urljoin("http://www.foo.com/Stuff/Mike/Doc.html","../Bob/Doc.html")
'http://www.foo.com/Stuff/Bob/Doc.html'

answered Sep 19, 2011 at 0:32

cheeken

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Mike Christensen Over a year ago

Nice! I knew this would turn out to be ridiculously easy in Python.

CatBraaain · Accepted Answer · 2025-07-10 13:00:07Z

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For additional:

If you are using python 3, The library name has changed:

>>> from urllib.parse import urljoin
>>> urljoin("http://www.example.com/Stuff/Mike/Doc.html","../Bob/Doc.html")
'http://www.example.com/Stuff/Bob/Doc.html'

edited Jul 10 at 13:00

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answered Apr 10, 2016 at 2:40

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