urlencode

Replace special characters in URLs with escape characters.

📝 Syntax

• new_url = webread(url)

📥 Input argument

• url - a string: URL to a web service.

📤 Output argument

• new_url - a string: encoded url.

📄 Description

urlencode replaces special characters in URLs with escape characters.

Special characters in URLs need to be replaced with escape characters. For example, spaces should be replaced with '%20'.

💡 Example

url = 'https://httpbin.org/get?query=hello world';
res = urlencode(url)

🔗 See also

webread.

🕔 History

Version	📄 Description
1.11.0	initial version