crawler: handle http:/ (single slash)

Fixing one more corner case! malayalam.oneindia.com
2020-05-02 19:17:15 +02:00 · 2020-05-02 19:17:15 +02:00 · 64e41b807d
parent a2c4691090
commit 64e41b807d
1 changed files with 3 additions and 0 deletions
--- a/morss/crawler.py
+++ b/morss/crawler.py
@ -129,6 +129,9 @@ def sanitize_url(url):
    if url.split(':', 1)[0] not in PROTOCOL:
        url = 'http://' + url

+    # turns out some websites have really badly fomatted urls (fix http:/badurl)
+    url = re.sub('^(https?):/([^/])', r'\1://\2', url)
+
    url = url.replace(' ', '%20')

    # Escape non-ascii unicode characters