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bgordon
bgordon

Reputation: 149

Python urljoin not joining relative and absolute urls together correctly

I have these two urls:

absolute_url = 'https://ciechgroup.com/en/relacje-inwestorskie/reports/current-reports'
relative_url = 'en/relacje-inwestorskie/reports/current-reports/2018/242018/'

And I'd like to join them to create this:

https://ciechgroup.com/en/relacje-inwestorskie/reports/current-reports/2018/242018/

However, urljoin doesn't join the urls together correctly:

from urllib.parse import urljoin

urljoin(absolute_url, relative_url)

>> https://ciechgroup.com/en/relacje-inwestorskie/reports/en/relacje-inwestorskie/reports/current-reports/2018/242018/

Do you know how I can achieve this without duplicating part of the url?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1825

Answers (2)

lufte
lufte

Reputation: 1364

urljoin is doing what it's supposed to do. It's taking the "current path" of your absolute url (/en/relacje-inwestorskie/reports/) as the base to which your relative url will be "relative to". The result is indeed /en/relacje-inwestorskie/reports/en/relacje-inwestorskie/reports/current-reports/2018/242018/.

From your expected result, it seems that your relative_url is actually an absolute path, so you need to prepend / to it.

>>> absolute_url = 'https://ciechgroup.com/en/relacje-inwestorskie/reports/current-reports'
>>> relative_url = '/en/relacje-inwestorskie/reports/current-reports/2018/242018/'
>>> from urllib.parse import urljoin
>>> urljoin(absolute_url, relative_url)
'https://ciechgroup.com/en/relacje-inwestorskie/reports/current-reports/2018/242018/'

Upvotes: 1

Erika Dsouza
Erika Dsouza

Reputation: 1083

Prepend a / in your relative_url

from urllib.parse import urljoin
absolute_url = 'https://ciechgroup.com/en/relacje-inwestorskie/reports/current-reports'
relative_url = '/en/relacje-inwestorskie/reports/current-reports/2018/242018/'
>>> urljoin(absolute_url, relative_url)
'https://ciechgroup.com/en/relacje-inwestorskie/reports/current-reports/2018/242018/'

Upvotes: 3

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