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Rahul
Rahul

Reputation: 11520

encoding url to short unique file name

I want to save html to a file based on the url.

to get unique name to url I am using uuid.

>>> url = "https://www.google.co.in/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=-koUWPf4HqzT8ge2g6HoBg&gws_rd=ssl"
>>> uuidstring = str(uuid.uuid5(uuid.NAMESPACE_DNS, url))

but i want to further shorten the name. Is there any way to shorten string to unique small string.

I tried base64 but I could not figure out.

>>> uuid.UUID(uuidstring).bytes.encode('base64').rstrip('=\n').replace('/', '_')
>>> AttributeError: 'bytes' object has no attribute 'encode'

linked question: Convert UUID 32-character hex string into a "YouTube-style" short id and back

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1748

Answers (1)

Jean-François Fabre
Jean-François Fabre

Reputation: 140158

Use the base64 module like this, it can handle binary data, then perform the decoding as ascii (will work because base64 is ascii).

import uuid,base64

url = "https://www.google.co.in/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=-koUWPf4HqzT8ge2g6HoBg&gws_rd=ssl"
uuidstring = str(uuid.uuid5(uuid.NAMESPACE_DNS, url))
z=base64.encodebytes(uuid.UUID(uuidstring).bytes).decode("ascii").rstrip('=\n').replace('/', '_')
print(z)

result:

pvEA9qOdX8COYyJf8zgzRA

Upvotes: 5

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