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Jecki
Jecki

Reputation: 802

Python : pass variable to url while doing request

i'm using the following to call a url , which I need to pass year/month/day as variable while calling it so the final url structure be like

http://mywebiste.com/downloading/main/2016/03/28/'

here is my code ,

import pycurl
import os, sys, re, shutil
import datetime
import time
import requests
import datetime
import logging
import httplib

#logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)

httplib.HTTPConnection.debuglevel = 1
logging.basicConfig()
logging.getLogger().setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
requests_log = logging.getLogger("requests.packages.urllib3")
requests_log.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
requests_log.propagate = True

now = datetime.datetime.now()
year = now.year
month = now.month
day =  now.day

url = 'http://mywebiste.com/downloading/main/%s/%s/%s/'
r = requests.get(url,timeout=10)
r.text
r.status_code
r.connection.close()

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4705

Answers (1)

Peter Badida
Peter Badida

Reputation: 12199

I think you want this:

url = 'http://mywebiste.com/downloading/main/%s/%s/%s/' % (year, month, day)

Little more explaining: for each string you want use with variables with % way you need to use string as my_string = 'my value is: %s' % value, where value is your variable.

Upvotes: 5

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