Scrape the absolute URL instead of a relative path in python

Question

I\'m trying to get all the href\'s from a HTML code and store it in a list for future processing such as this:

Example URL: www.example-page-xl.com

Answer 1

In this case urlparse.urljoin helps you. You should modify your code like this-

import bs4 as bs4
import urllib.request
from urlparse import  urljoin

web_url = 'https:www.example-page-xl.com'
sauce = urllib.request.urlopen(web_url).read()
soup = bs.BeautifulSoup(sauce,'lxml')

section = soup.section

for url in section.find_all('a'):
    print urljoin(web_url,url.get('href'))

here urljoin manage absolute and relative paths.