Change relative to absolute URL

[Kurt 1]

I have a page of relative URLs scraped from Youtube:

 

/watch?v=MHeX6yg95xU

/watch?v=4V4c1nsjc9o

/watch?v=_drEFOaPaK8

/watch?v=yknBPGkhPgE

 

How do I change the list of relative URLs into absolute URLs like below so each can be navigated to?

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4V4c1nsjc9o

 

I've tried $replace, but must be doing something wrong.

[Joe118 3]

Do:

 

set #theabsoluteURL "http://youtube.com/{1}" with {1} being substituted by a variable containing /watch?v=MHeX6yg95xU etc.

 

I have a page of relative URLs scraped from Youtube:

 

/watch?v=MHeX6yg95xU

/watch?v=4V4c1nsjc9o

/watch?v=_drEFOaPaK8

/watch?v=yknBPGkhPgE

 

How do I change the list of relative URLs into absolute URLs like below so each can be navigated to?

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4V4c1nsjc9o

 

I've tried $replace, but must be doing something wrong.

[Kurt 1]

Do:

 

set #theabsoluteURL "http://youtube.com/{1}" with {1} being substituted by a variable containing /watch?v=MHeX6yg95xU etc.

 

Thanks Joe, I appreciate it.

 

When do I set #theabsoluteURL{1} ? Do I add it to a list or to the navigation?

 

Sorry, but I'm still a noob with ubot.

[Kurt 1]

I'd really appreciate if someone can help me out...I've spent a good day and a half on this single problem.

 

Attached is a ubot script that will search ubot and scrape the URLs and save them to a file.

 

Problem is, it saves them as:

/watch?v=MHeX6yg95xU

/watch?v=4V4c1nsjc9o

/watch?v=_drEFOaPaK8

/watch?v=yknBPGkhPgE

 

 

I need them to be so each page can be navigated to (and then scraped):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4V4c1nsjc9o

 

 

Can anyone please help? I've got the rest of the script finished, but have been hung up on this issue for a while...

YouTube_SERP_URLs.ubot

[Kurt 1]

PS...I've tried the obvious, logical way, which is:

 

Save to file => Content to save

http://youtube.com{1}

 

...where {1} is the list containing the relative links. However, when I try this, it doesn't write anything to the file.

[gwen 5]

is this what you are trying to do?? youtube.ubot

 

did you scraped this "watch?v=yknBPGkhPgE"

if so, why not scrape the whole url (href) it's much easier.

 

hope this help..

 

by the way, if you want to try the attached bot, you need to edit the path where you want to save full urls

[Kurt 1]

is this what you are trying to do?? youtube.ubot

 

did you scraped this "watch?v=yknBPGkhPgE"

if so, why not scrape the whole url (href) it's much easier.

 

hope this help..

 

by the way, if you want to try the attached bot, you need to edit the path where you want to save full urls

 

Hi Gwen,

 

Thanks a lot...I'll give your script a try. The reason I didn't scrape the whole URL is because I don't see them in the Youtube SERPs:

 

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=test&aq=f

[Kurt 1]

Hey Gwen,

 

I got your script to work, and I should be able to add it to the rest of the bot.

 

Thanks again, I really appreciate it.

[gwen 5]

Hey Gwen,

 

I got your script to work, and I should be able to add it to the rest of the bot.

 

Thanks again, I really appreciate it.

 

if you want to scrape the whole url maybe try this one youtube2.ubot

[Kurt 1]

if you want to scrape the whole url maybe try this one youtube2.ubot

 

Thanks again Gwen, that works even better.

 

And I learned a good lesson too.