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scrapy shell - bug in processing escaped URLs
See original GitHub issueFor eg: URL - https://altoona.craigslist.org/search/sss?query=cars&sort=rel&searchNearby=1 when pasted on the command line (shell-specific) creates a few escaping characters - backslashes
The following command gives a 404:
$ scrapy shell 'https://altoona.craigslist.org/search/sss\?query\=cars\&sort\=rel\&searchNearby\=1'
I saw a similar discussion in #1232 - where urllib.parse.unquote() was used to fix it.
In this case even unquote doesn’t seem to work.
>>> unquote('https://altoona.craigslist.org/search/sss\?query\=cars\&sort\=rel\&searchNearby\=1')
'https://altoona.craigslist.org/search/sss\\?query\\=cars\\&sort\\=rel\\&searchNearby\\=1'
Even though URL-character escaping is an issue specific to the shell, wouldn’t it be awesome if Scrapy processes such URLs automatically?
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Sure, I’ll send a PR right away.
Hello @rolando , I tried it on oh-my-zsh and basic zsh as well. Opening double-quotes beforehand does not seem to help. (Tested it on both iTerm2 and Terminal)