Add a string into a url python

Question

I am trying to add a string in the middle of an url. Somehow my output looks like this:

http://www.Holiday.com/('Woman',)/Beach
http://www.Holiday.com/('Men',)/Beach

Somehow it should look like this:

http://www.Holiday.com/Woman/Beach
http://www.Holiday.com/Men/Beach

The code which I am using looks like the following:

list = {'Woman','Men'}
url_test = 'http://www.Holiday.com/{}/Beach'
for i in zip(list):
    url = url_test.format(str(i))
    print(url)

And what do you see printed?

m-ric
– m-ric

2017-02-08 19:06:48 +00:00
Commented Feb 8, 2017 at 19:06 — m-ric
– m-ric, Commented Feb 8, 2017 at 19:06
And Please don't use list as a variable name.

Rahul K P
– Rahul K P

2017-02-08 19:07:06 +00:00
Commented Feb 8, 2017 at 19:07 — Rahul K P
– Rahul K P, Commented Feb 8, 2017 at 19:07

Gilad Green · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-08 19:07:21Z

6

Almost there. Just no need for zip:

items = {'Woman','Men'} # notice that this is a `set` and not a list
url_test = 'http://www.Holiday.com/{}/Beach'
for i in items:
    url = url_test.format(i)
    print(url)

The purpose of the zip function is to join several collections by the index if the item. When the zip joins the values from each collection it places them in a tuple which it's __str__ representation is exactly what you got. Here you just want to iterate the items in the collection

edited Feb 8, 2017 at 19:07

answered Feb 8, 2017 at 19:05

Gilad Green

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brianpck Over a year ago

Worth mentioning that list isn't a good var name and that the str (which you removed) was unnecessary

Gilad Green Over a year ago

@brianpck - true :) especially that it is actually a set

MCM Over a year ago

@GiladGreen, thanks a lot this what I was looking for. Somehow I misuderstood the use of zip.

Rahul K P · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-28 05:53:32Z

2

You can try this also, And please don't use list as a variable name.

lst = {'Woman','Men'}
url_test = 'http://www.Holiday.com/%s/Beach'
for i in lst:
     url = url_test %i
     print url

edited Feb 28, 2018 at 5:53

answered Feb 8, 2017 at 19:09

Rahul K P

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Neeraj Sharma · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-04 08:11:56Z

from urllib.request import urlopen
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as BS
url = "https://www.imdb.com/chart/top?ref_=nv_mv_250"
html = urlopen(url)

url_list = BS(html, 'lxml')
type(url_list)

all_links = url_list.find_all('a', href=re.compile("/title/tt"))
for link in all_links:
  print(link.get("href"))
all_urls = link.get("href")

url_test = 'http://www.imdb.com/{}/'
for i in all_urls:
    urls = url_test.format(i)
    print(urls)

    this is the code to scrape the urls of all the 250 movies from the main url.
    but the code gives the result as ------

    http://www.imdb.com///
    http://www.imdb.com/t/
    http://www.imdb.com/i/
    http://www.imdb.com/t/
    http://www.imdb.com/l/
    http://www.imdb.com/e/
    http://www.imdb.com///
    and so on ...

    how can i split 'all_urls' using a comma, or how can I make a list of urls in 
    'all_urls'....

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