Is there a way to URL decode a string in Python 3
to take something like this
id%253D184ff84d27c3613d%26quality%3Dmedium
and decode it twice to get
id=184ff84d27c3613d&quality=medium
Just use urllib.parse.unquote():
urllib.parse.unquote()
>>> import urllib.parse >>> urllib.parse.unquote('id%253D184ff84d27c3613d%26quality%3Dmedium') 'id%3D184ff84d27c3613d&quality=medium' >>> urllib.parse.unquote('id%3D184ff84d27c3613d&quality=medium') id=184ff84d27c3613d&quality=medium
Try this:
from urllib.parse import unquote s = 'id%253D184ff84d27c3613d%26quality%3Dmedium' unquote(unquote(s))
It will return:
> 'id=184ff84d27c3613d&quality=medium'