Download pdf on Safari and open in Pythonista script?

[cvp]

I download a pdf in Safari, then, on this pdf, I "open in" a Pythonista script that uses appex and receives a "get_url" as "file://..........pdf".
How can I read/copy this file locally in Pythonista dirs?

[dgelessus]

To convert the file: URL to a normal path, you can simply remove the file:// prefix using path = url[len("file://"):]. (You can of course just write path = url[7:], but it's not very obvious what the 7 means.)

Pythonista's "Script Library" is located at ~/Documents. ~ is the "home" directory, to convert that to a normal path use os.path.expanduser("~/Documents").

So if you want to save the file into Pythonista, you can use something like this:

import appex
import os
import shutil

path = appex.get_url()[len("file://"):]
name = os.path.basename(path)
dest = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~/Documents"), name)
shutil.copy(path, dest)

This could be condensed into less lines, I've split it up a little for clarity.

Though if you just want to work with the PDF file and don't need to keep it permanently, you can open the path normally:

with open(path, "rb"):
    # do whatever you need to

[cvp]

Resolved: just found "urlretrieve" in a post (jonB) of last week...

[omz]

@dgelessus That won't work correctly if the URL contains percent escapes. A better method would be to use urlparse and urllib.url2pathname, like this:

from urlparse import urlparse
from urllib import url2pathname

p = urlparse(file_url)
file_path = url2pathname(p.path)

[cvp]

Tanks a lot for your both clarifications...