%20 in query string being stripped out

[agricolan]

I'm posting a URL with a space in the query:
https://www.reach22.com/p/yourls-api.php?signature=xxxxxxxxxx&action=shorturl&keyword=test&format=json&url=https://reach22.com?title=coffee%20cup
I receive the response:
"status":"success","message":"https://reach22.com/coffeecup added to database"

How can I persuade YOURLS to retain the space in coffee cup. Works fine with the Admin Interface but not with the API. Thanks

[agricolan]

Managed to fix it by changing %20 to \%20.

[agricolan]

That should be a double backslash.

[ozh]

As stated in the readme: URL encode your requests. http://yourls.org/#API;apiusage

[agricolan]

Tnanks. In Python 3 I'm using: url = urllib.parse.quote_plus(sys.argv[1]) where sys.argv[1]="coffee cup" but it doesn't work - the youurl has 'coffeecup' and not 'coffee cup'. Is there another command I should be using? Michael

On 2021-05-15 18:37, ྅༻ Ǭɀħ ༄༆ཉ wrote: As stated in the readme: URL encode your requests. http://yourls.org/#API;apiusage -- You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub [1], or unsubscribe [2].

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[dgw]

At least I would say use quote() instead, since quote_plus() explicitly doesn't convert space to %20 but rather to +.

That said, if you're using a library like requests to send your API calls, you should just let the library handle your encoding for you.