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# URL Helpers

`werkzeug.urls` used to provide several wrapper functions for Python 2 urlparse, whose main purpose were to work around the behavior of the Py2 stdlib and its lack of unicode support. While this was already a somewhat inconvenient situation, it got even more complicated because Python 3’s `urllib.parse` actually does handle unicode properly. In other words, this module would wrap two libraries with completely different behavior. So now this module contains a 2-and-3-compatible backport of Python 3’s `urllib.parse`, which is mostly API-compatible.

class `werkzeug.urls.``BaseURL`

  Superclass of `URL` and `BytesURL`.

  `ascii_host`

    Works exactly like `host` but will return a result that is restricted to ASCII. If it finds a netloc that is not ASCII it will attempt to idna decode it. This is useful for socket operations when the URL might include internationalized characters.

  `auth`

    The authentication part in the URL if available, None otherwise.

  `decode_netloc`()

    Decodes the netloc part into a string.

  `decode_query`(*args, **kwargs)

    Decodes the query part of the URL. Ths is a shortcut for calling `url_decode()` on the query argument. The arguments and keyword arguments are forwarded to `url_decode()` unchanged.

  `get_file_location`(pathformat=None)

    Returns a tuple with the location of the file in the form `(server, location)`. If the netloc is empty in the URL or points to localhost, it’s represented as `None`.

    The pathformat by default is autodetection but needs to be set when working with URLs of a specific system. The supported values are `'windows'` when working with Windows or DOS paths and `'posix'` when working with posix paths.

    If the URL does not point to to a local file, the server and location are both represented as `None`.

    Parameters: | pathformat – The expected format of the path component. Currently `'windows'` and `'posix'` are supported. Defaults to `None` which is autodetect.

  `host`

    The host part of the URL if available, otherwise None. The host is either the hostname or the IP address mentioned in the URL. It will not contain the port.

  `join`(*args, **kwargs)

    Joins this URL with another one. This is just a convenience function for calling into `url_join()` and then parsing the return value again.

  `password`

    The password if it was part of the URL, None otherwise. This undergoes URL decoding and will always be a unicode string.

  `port`

    The port in the URL as an integer if it was present, None otherwise. This does not fill in default ports.

  `raw_password`

    The password if it was part of the URL, None otherwise. Unlike `password` this one is not being decoded.

  `raw_username`

    The username if it was part of the URL, None otherwise. Unlike `username` this one is not being decoded.

  `replace`(**kwargs)

    Return an URL with the same values, except for those parameters given new values by whichever keyword arguments are specified.

  `to_iri_tuple`()

    Returns a `URL` tuple that holds a IRI. This will try to decode as much information as possible in the URL without losing information similar to how a web browser does it for the URL bar.

    It’s usually more interesting to directly call `uri_to_iri()` which will return a string.

  `to_uri_tuple`()

    Returns a `BytesURL` tuple that holds a URI. This will encode all the information in the URL properly to ASCII using the rules a web browser would follow.

    It’s usually more interesting to directly call `iri_to_uri()` which will return a string.

  `to_url`()

    Returns a URL string or bytes depending on the type of the information stored. This is just a convenience function for calling `url_unparse()` for this URL.

  `username`

    The username if it was part of the URL, None otherwise. This undergoes URL decoding and will always be a unicode string.

class `werkzeug.urls.``BytesURL`

  Represents a parsed URL in bytes.

  `decode`(charset='utf-8', errors='replace')

    Decodes the URL to a tuple made out of strings. The charset is only being used for the path, query and fragment.

  `encode_netloc`()

    Returns the netloc unchanged as bytes.

class `werkzeug.urls.``Href`(base='./', charset='utf-8', sort=False, key=None)

  Implements a callable that constructs URLs with the given base. The function can be called with any number of positional and keyword arguments which than are used to assemble the URL. Works with URLs and posix paths.

  Positional arguments are appended as individual segments to the path of the URL:

      >>> href = Href('/foo')
      >>> href('bar', 23)
      '/foo/bar/23'
      >>> href('foo', bar=23)
      '/foo/foo?bar=23'

  If any of the arguments (positional or keyword) evaluates to None it will be skipped. If no keyword arguments are given the last argument can be a `dict` or `MultiDict` (or any other dict subclass), otherwise the keyword arguments are used for the query parameters, cutting off the first trailing underscore of the parameter name:

      >>> href(is_=42)
      '/foo?is=42'
      >>> href({'foo': 'bar'})
      '/foo?foo=bar'

  Combining of both methods is not allowed:

      >>> href({'foo': 'bar'}, bar=42)
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        ...
      TypeError: keyword arguments and query-dicts can't be combined
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        ...
      TypeError: keyword arguments and query-dicts can't be combined

  Accessing attributes on the href object creates a new href object with the attribute name as prefix:

      >>> bar_href = href.bar
      >>> bar_href("blub")
      '/foo/bar/blub'

  If sort is set to True the items are sorted by key or the default sorting algorithm:

      >>> href = Href("/", sort=True)
      >>> href(a=1, b=2, c=3)
      '/?a=1&b=2&c=3'

  New in version 0.5: sort and key were added.

class `werkzeug.urls.``URL`

  Represents a parsed URL. This behaves like a regular tuple but also has some extra attributes that give further insight into the URL.

  `encode`(charset='utf-8', errors='replace')

    Encodes the URL to a tuple made out of bytes. The charset is only being used for the path, query and fragment.

  `encode_netloc`()

    Encodes the netloc part to an ASCII safe URL as bytes.

`werkzeug.urls.``iri_to_uri`(iri, charset='utf-8', errors='strict', safe_conversion=False)

  Converts any unicode based IRI to an acceptable ASCII URI. Werkzeug always uses utf-8 URLs internally because this is what browsers and HTTP do as well. In some places where it accepts an URL it also accepts a unicode IRI and converts it into a URI.

  Examples for IRI versus URI:

      >>> iri_to_uri(u'http://☃.net/')
      'http://xn--n3h.net/'
      >>> iri_to_uri(u'http://üser:pässword@☃.net/påth')
      'http://%C3%BCser:p%C3%A4ssword@xn--n3h.net/p%C3%A5th'

  There is a general problem with IRI and URI conversion with some protocols that appear in the wild that are in violation of the URI specification. In places where Werkzeug goes through a forced IRI to URI conversion it will set the safe_conversion flag which will not perform a conversion if the end result is already ASCII. This can mean that the return value is not an entirely correct URI but it will not destroy such invalid URLs in the process.

  As an example consider the following two IRIs:

      magnet:?xt=uri:whatever
      itms-services://?action=download-manifest

  The internal representation after parsing of those URLs is the same and there is no way to reconstruct the original one. If safe conversion is enabled however this function becomes a noop for both of those strings as they both can be considered URIs.

  New in version 0.6.

  Changed in version 0.9.6: The safe_conversion parameter was added.

  Parameters:

  - iri – The IRI to convert.
  - charset – The charset for the URI.
  - safe_conversion – indicates if a safe conversion should take place. For more information see the explanation above.

`werkzeug.urls.``uri_to_iri`(uri, charset='utf-8', errors='replace')

  Converts a URI in a given charset to a IRI.

  Examples for URI versus IRI:

      >>> uri_to_iri(b'http://xn--n3h.net/')
      u'http://\u2603.net/'
      >>> uri_to_iri(b'http://%C3%BCser:p%C3%A4ssword@xn--n3h.net/p%C3%A5th')
      u'http://\xfcser:p\xe4ssword@\u2603.net/p\xe5th'

  Query strings are left unchanged:

      >>> uri_to_iri('/?foo=24&x=%26%2f')
      u'/?foo=24&x=%26%2f'

  New in version 0.6.

  Parameters:

  - uri – The URI to convert.
  - charset – The charset of the URI.
  - errors – The error handling on decode.

`werkzeug.urls.``url_decode`(s, charset='utf-8', decode_keys=False, include_empty=True, errors='replace', separator='&', cls=None)

  Parse a querystring and return it as `MultiDict`. There is a difference in key decoding on different Python versions. On Python 3 keys will always be fully decoded whereas on Python 2, keys will remain bytestrings if they fit into ASCII. On 2.x keys can be forced to be unicode by setting decode_keys to True.

  If the charset is set to None no unicode decoding will happen and raw bytes will be returned.

  Per default a missing value for a key will default to an empty key. If you don’t want that behavior you can set include_empty to False.

  Per default encoding errors are ignored. If you want a different behavior you can set errors to `'replace'` or `'strict'`. In strict mode a HTTPUnicodeError is raised.

  Changed in version 0.5: In previous versions ”;” and “&” could be used for url decoding. This changed in 0.5 where only “&” is supported. If you want to use ”;” instead a different separator can be provided.

  The cls parameter was added.

  Parameters:

  - s – a string with the query string to decode.
  - charset – the charset of the query string. If set to None no unicode decoding will take place.
  - decode_keys – Used on Python 2.x to control whether keys should be forced to be unicode objects. If set to True then keys will be unicode in all cases. Otherwise, they remain str if they fit into ASCII.
  - include_empty – Set to False if you don’t want empty values to appear in the dict.
  - errors – the decoding error behavior.
  - separator – the pair separator to be used, defaults to `&`
  - cls – an optional dict class to use. If this is not specified or None the default `MultiDict` is used.

`werkzeug.urls.``url_decode_stream`(stream, charset='utf-8', decode_keys=False, include_empty=True, errors='replace', separator='&', cls=None, limit=None, return_iterator=False)

  Works like `url_decode()` but decodes a stream. The behavior of stream and limit follows functions like `make_line_iter()`. The generator of pairs is directly fed to the cls so you can consume the data while it’s parsed.

  New in version 0.8.

  Parameters:

  - stream – a stream with the encoded querystring
  - charset – the charset of the query string. If set to None no unicode decoding will take place.
  - decode_keys – Used on Python 2.x to control whether keys should be forced to be unicode objects. If set to True, keys will be unicode in all cases. Otherwise, they remain str if they fit into ASCII.
  - include_empty – Set to False if you don’t want empty values to appear in the dict.
  - errors – the decoding error behavior.
  - separator – the pair separator to be used, defaults to `&`
  - cls – an optional dict class to use. If this is not specified or None the default `MultiDict` is used.
  - limit – the content length of the URL data. Not necessary if a limited stream is provided.
  - return_iterator – if set to True the cls argument is ignored and an iterator over all decoded pairs is returned

`werkzeug.urls.``url_encode`(obj, charset='utf-8', encode_keys=False, sort=False, key=None, separator='&')

  URL encode a dict/MultiDict. If a value is None it will not appear in the result string. Per default only values are encoded into the target charset strings. If encode_keys is set to `True` unicode keys are supported too.

  If sort is set to True the items are sorted by key or the default sorting algorithm.

  New in version 0.5: sort, key, and separator were added.

  Parameters:

  - obj – the object to encode into a query string.
  - charset – the charset of the query string.
  - encode_keys – set to True if you have unicode keys. (Ignored on Python 3.x)
  - sort – set to True if you want parameters to be sorted by key.
  - separator – the separator to be used for the pairs.
  - key – an optional function to be used for sorting. For more details check out the `sorted()` documentation.

`werkzeug.urls.``url_encode_stream`(obj, stream=None, charset='utf-8', encode_keys=False, sort=False, key=None, separator='&')

  Like `url_encode()` but writes the results to a stream object. If the stream is None a generator over all encoded pairs is returned.

  New in version 0.8.

  Parameters:

  - obj – the object to encode into a query string.
  - stream – a stream to write the encoded object into or None if an iterator over the encoded pairs should be returned. In that case the separator argument is ignored.
  - charset – the charset of the query string.
  - encode_keys – set to True if you have unicode keys. (Ignored on Python 3.x)
  - sort – set to True if you want parameters to be sorted by key.
  - separator – the separator to be used for the pairs.
  - key – an optional function to be used for sorting. For more details check out the `sorted()` documentation.

`werkzeug.urls.``url_fix`(s, charset='utf-8')

  Sometimes you get an URL by a user that just isn’t a real URL because it contains unsafe characters like ‘ ‘ and so on. This function can fix some of the problems in a similar way browsers handle data entered by the user:

      >>> url_fix(u'http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elf (Begriffskl\xe4rung)')
      'http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elf%20(Begriffskl%C3%A4rung)'

  Parameters:

  - s – the string with the URL to fix.
  - charset – The target charset for the URL if the url was given as unicode string.

`werkzeug.urls.``url_join`(base, url, allow_fragments=True)

  Join a base URL and a possibly relative URL to form an absolute interpretation of the latter.

  Parameters:

  - base – the base URL for the join operation.
  - url – the URL to join.
  - allow_fragments – indicates whether fragments should be allowed.

`werkzeug.urls.``url_parse`(url, scheme=None, allow_fragments=True)

  Parses a URL from a string into a `URL` tuple. If the URL is lacking a scheme it can be provided as second argument. Otherwise, it is ignored. Optionally fragments can be stripped from the URL by setting allow_fragments to False.

  The inverse of this function is `url_unparse()`.

  Parameters:

  - url – the URL to parse.
  - scheme – the default schema to use if the URL is schemaless.
  - allow_fragments – if set to False a fragment will be removed from the URL.

`werkzeug.urls.``url_quote`(string, charset='utf-8', errors='strict', safe='/:', unsafe='')

  URL encode a single string with a given encoding.

  Parameters:

  - s – the string to quote.
  - charset – the charset to be used.
  - safe – an optional sequence of safe characters.
  - unsafe – an optional sequence of unsafe characters.

  New in version 0.9.2: The unsafe parameter was added.

`werkzeug.urls.``url_quote_plus`(string, charset='utf-8', errors='strict', safe='')

  URL encode a single string with the given encoding and convert whitespace to “+”.

  Parameters:

  - s – The string to quote.
  - charset – The charset to be used.
  - safe – An optional sequence of safe characters.

`werkzeug.urls.``url_unparse`(components)

  The reverse operation to `url_parse()`. This accepts arbitrary as well as `URL` tuples and returns a URL as a string.

  Parameters: | components – the parsed URL as tuple which should be converted into a URL string.

`werkzeug.urls.``url_unquote`(string, charset='utf-8', errors='replace', unsafe='')

  URL decode a single string with a given encoding. If the charset is set to None no unicode decoding is performed and raw bytes are returned.

  Parameters:

  - s – the string to unquote.
  - charset – the charset of the query string. If set to None no unicode decoding will take place.
  - errors – the error handling for the charset decoding.

`werkzeug.urls.``url_unquote_plus`(s, charset='utf-8', errors='replace')

  URL decode a single string with the given charset and decode “+” to whitespace.

  Per default encoding errors are ignored. If you want a different behavior you can set errors to `'replace'` or `'strict'`. In strict mode a `HTTPUnicodeError` is raised.

  Parameters:

  - s – The string to unquote.
  - charset – the charset of the query string. If set to None no unicode decoding will take place.
  - errors – The error handling for the charset decoding.