urlparse library is used in python in order to well, parse a URL.

Consider the example below:

from urlparse import urlparse
 google_url = urlparse('https://www.google.com/profile?active=true#comment')

google_url is now of type ParseResult class, which includes all data we need:

The protocol used in URL is achievable by:

print url.scheme
 'https'

Absolute url of the google url is retrieved by netloc:

print url.netloc
 'www.google.com'

The path section of the URL which is after the domain section is:

print url.path
 '/profile'

Query section of the URL:

print url.query
 'active=true'

The fragment part of url is stored in fragment attribute:

print url.fragment
 'comment'

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