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Utilities to clean up URLs

Project description

Welcome to urlclean’s documentation!

urlclean provides functions:

  • to follow a http redirect,

  • to follow a HTML META redirect,

  • to remove Urchin and Facebook tracker URL parameters,

  • plugins for futher cleaning power,

  • combines all these to unshorten and resolve various URLS

Try it out from the commandline:

python -m urlclean <some url>

Contents:

Indices and tables

  • Index

  • Module Index

  • Search Page

Documentation for the Code

urlcleaner a module that resolves redirected urls and removes tracking url params

urlclean.weedparams(url)

removes Urchin Tracker and Facebook surveillance params from urls.

Args:

url (str): The url to scrub of ugly params

Returns:

(str). The return cleaned url

urlclean.httpresolve(url, ua=None, proxyhost=’’, proxyport=’’)

resolve one redirection of a http request.

Args:

url (str): The url to follow one redirect

ua (fn): A function returning a User Agent string (optional)

proxyhost (str): http proxy server (optional)

proxyport (int): http proxy server port (optional)

Returns: (str, httplib.response). The return resolved url, and

the response from the http query

urlclean.unmeta(url, res)

Finds any meta redirects a httplib.response object that has text/html as content-type.

Args:

url (str): The url to follow one redirect

res (httplib.response): a http.response object

Returns: (str). The return resolved url

urlclean.unshorten(url, cache=None, ua=None, >>**<<kwargs)

resolves all HTTP/META redirects and optionally caches them in any object supporting a __getitem__, __setitem__ interface

Args:

url (str): The url to follow one redirect

cache (PersistentCryptoDict): an optional PersistentCryptoDict instance

ua (fn): A function returning a User Agent string (optional), the default is googlebot.

>>**<<kwargs (dict): optional proxy args for urlclean.httpresolve (default: localhost:8118)

Returns: (str). The return final cleaned url.

Plugins

Plugins should have a convert function that receives and returns a URL. In case of an error an unchanged URL should be returned.

Changelog

  • v0.5.4 - fixed httpresolve for relative urls

  • v0.5.1 - install/doc fixes

  • v0.5 - added plugins

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