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Is it possible to change an URL which contains percent signs like

 http%3A%2F%2Funiversities.ac%2Fshow_article.php%3Fid%3D61&amp

to normal URL readable by human like

http://universities.ac/show_article.php?id=61

using Selenium?

albert
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Milano
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  • possible duplicate of [Decode escaped characters in URL](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8136788/decode-escaped-characters-in-url) – JeffC Aug 30 '15 at 23:11

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This doesn't really have anything to do with Selenium. You can use the urlparse module in the standard library.

from urlparse import unquote      # python2
from urllib.parse import unquote  # python3
unquote('http%3A%2F%2Funiversities.ac%2Fshow_article.php%3Fid%3D61&amp')
Daniel Roseman
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  • The ampersand `&` (HTML-entity: `&amp`) at the and of the URL does not seem to be unquoted. As a quick workaround you could pass the unquoted URL string to [`html.unencode()`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/html.html#html.unescape) in oder to convert HTML-entities – albert Aug 30 '15 at 20:58
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You can use urllib unquote as follows

url='http%3A%2F%2Funiversities.ac%2Fshow_article.php%3Fid%3D61&amp'
url=urllib.unquote(url).decode('utf8')
Arturs Vancans
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