SWIFT: Why is “NSURL(string:” returning with Nil, even though it's a valid url in a browser?

Question

The first two example links are working the third one returns NIL.

Why is NSUrl returning nil for such string, even though it\'s a valid url in a browser?

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Answer 1

For swift3 you can do like this

let url = URL(string:url.addingPercentEncoding(withAllowedCharacters: NSCharacterSet.urlQueryAllowed)!)!