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A URL matching regex in Python — any problems?

By On January 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Can anyone see any flaws in it for real-world URL?

>>> str = 'and now http://sub.domain.com/something/?here3=3ab&what=1#where=1 that was a URL'

>>> urls = re.findall('http[s]?://(?:[a-zA-Z]|[0-9]|[$-_@.&#+]|[!*(),]|(?:%[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]))+', str)

>>> urls

['http://sub.domain.com/something/?here3=3ab&what=1#where=1']

For me it looks like working but you never now…  Comments from @HD42 [...]

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flickrpy + 30 lines of code = poor man's Flickr Backup solution

By On January 15, 2010 · 5 Comments

It uses somewhat buggy but excellent flickrpy module by James Clarke — works well for me after some small adjustments:

def main(): flickr.API_KEY = constants.API_KEY flickr.API_SECRET = constants.API_SECRET u = flickr.User(id = ’92002612@N00′) sets = u.getPhotosets() for ps in sets: name = ps.title name = name.replace(‘”‘, “‘”).replace(“/”, “_”) folderName = “/Users/kirillov/Pictures/Flickr/%s” % name [...]

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