Im passing through some urls and I'd like to strip a part of it which dynamically changes so I don't know it firsthand.
An example url is:
https://...?pid=2&gid=lostchapter&lang=en_GB&practice=1&channel=desktop&demo=2
And I'd like to strip the gid=lostchapter part without any of the rest.
How do I do that?
You can use urllib to convert the query string into a Python dict and access the desired item:
In [1]: from urllib import parse
In [2]: s = "https://...?pid=2&gid=lostchapter&lang=en_GB&practice=1&channel=desktop&demo=2"
In [3]: q = parse.parse_qs(parse.urlsplit(s).query)
In [4]: q
Out[4]:
{'pid': ['2'],
'gid': ['lostchapter'],
'lang': ['en_GB'],
'practice': ['1'],
'channel': ['desktop'],
'demo': ['2']}
In [5]: q["gid"]
Out[5]: ['lostchapter']
lostchapter
q["gid"][0] will pull the value out of the list. The reason parse_qs function always turns query strings into Dict[str, List[str]] is because of how query strings can be formed (i.e., query string parameters can be used more than once).Here is the simple way to strip them
urls = "https://...?pid=2&gid=lostchapter&lang=en_GB&practice=1&channel=desktop&demo=2"
# Import the `urlparse` and `urlunparse` methods
from urllib.parse import urlparse, urlunparse
# Parse the URL
url = urlparse(urls)
# Convert the `urlparse` object back into a URL string
url = urlunparse(url)
# Strip the string
url = url.split("?")[1]
url = url.split("&")[1]
# Print the new URL
print(url) # Prints "gid=lostchapter"
from urllib.parse import urlparse
p = urlparse('https://.../?pid=2&gid=lostchapter&lang=en_GB&practice=1&channel=desktop&demo=2')
param: list[str] = [i for i in p.query.split('&') if i.startswith('gid=')]
Output: gid=lostchapter
param: str = re.search(r'gid=.*&', 'https://.../?pid=2&gid=lostchapter&lang=en_GB&practice=1&channel=desktop&demo=2').group()[:-1]
you can change the regex pattern to appropriate pattern to match the expected outputs. currently it will extract any value.
We can try doing a regex replacement:
url = "https://...?pid=2&gid=lostchapter&lang=en_GB&practice=1&channel=desktop&demo=2"
output = re.sub(r'(?<=[?&])gid=lostchapter&?', '', url)
print(output) # https://...?pid=2&lang=en_GB&practice=1&channel=desktop&demo=2
For a more generic replacement, match on the following regex pattern:
(?<=[?&])gid=\w+&?
gid=lostchapter ? I want to strip it and make it a stand-alone stringUsing string slicing (I'm assuming there will be an '&' after gid=lostchapter)
url = r'https://...?pid=2&gid=lostchapter&lang=en_GB&practice=1&channel=desktop&demo=2'
start = url.find('gid')
end = start + url[url.find('gid'):].find('&')
url = url[start:] + url[:end-1]
print(url)
output
gid=lostchapter
What I'm trying to do here is:
