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sprintingdev/relative_to_absolute_path.py

Created February 6, 2014 12:47
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A python script to replace relative paths in src/href attributes of HTML with absolute paths. Created with help from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3836644/c-sharp-convert-relative-to-absolute-links-in-html-string and http://docs.python.org/2/howto/regex.html
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relative_to_absolute_path.py
#!/usr/bin/env python
import re
import os
def srcrepl(match):
"Return the file contents with paths replaced"
absolutePath = "http://www.example.com/" #update the URL to be prefixed here.
print "<" + match.group(1) + match.group(2) + "=" + "\"" + absolutePath + match.group(3) + match.group(4) + "\"" + ">"
return "<" + match.group(1) + match.group(2) + "=" + "\"" + absolutePath + match.group(3) + match.group(4) + "\"" + ">"
#
f = open("/path/to/data/file", "r+") #update the file name here.
fileContents = f.read()
p = re.compile(r"<(.*?)(src|href)=\"(?!http)(.*?)\"(.*?)>")
updatedFileContents = p.sub(srcrepl, fileContents)
f.write(updatedFileContents)
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