How to get the different parts of a Python Flask request’s URL?

Sometimes, we want to get the different parts of a Python Flask request’s URL.

In this article, we’ll look at how to get the different parts of a Python Flask request’s URL.

How to get the different parts of a Python Flask request’s URL?

To get the different parts of a Python Flask request’s URL, we can use various properties of request.

For instance, if we have

http://www.example.com/myapplication

as the root URL and we make a request to

http://www.example.com/myapplication/foo/page.html?x=y

Then we can get all parts of http://www.example.com/myapplication/foo/page.html?x=y by using the following properties

• path – /foo/page.html
• full_path – /foo/page.html?x=y
• script_root – myapplication
• base_url – http://www.example.com/myapplication/foo/page.html
• url – http://www.example.com/myapplication/foo/page.html?x=y
• url_root – http://www.example.com/myapplication/

Conclusion

To get the different parts of a Python Flask request’s URL, we can use various properties of request.