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**Category:** Dev/API Corner\
**Tags:** plugin-dev\
**Created:** [October 30, 2013, 1:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/convert-an-html-encoded-url/45714 "2013-10-30T13:33:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1
**Author:**  [@TehCrucible](https://forums.plex.tv/u/TehCrucible)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 1:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/convert-an-html-encoded-url/45714/1 "2013-10-30T13:33:49Z")
Hey guys, me again. Quick question. So I'm working on a channel that pulls the video link from inside a flash player iframe. So far, my regex is working and I'm able to isolate the video link as a string. However the url is encoded like so:
```
http%3A%2F%2Fs23.videofun.me%2Fvideos%2FOne-Piece%2FOne-Piece-316.flv%3Fst%3D0lvvFIxQJyRZIM0JPBiVTw%26e%3D1383146128
```
and playback fails when trying to redirect based on that url. Logs show me a 302. I'm assuming it needs to look more like this:
```
http://s23.videofun.me/videos/One-Piece/One-Piece-316.flv?st=0lvvFIxQJyRZIM0JPBiVTw&e=1383146128
```
Is there a simple way to achieve this within the url service code? Am I doing something else wrong? My function is as follows:
```
def PlayVideo(url):
```
iframe_url = HTML.ElementFromURL(url).xpath("//div[@id='streams']//iframe/@src")[0]
page_data = HTML.ElementFromURL(iframe_url)
string_data = HTML.StringFromElement(page_data)
find_url = RE_PLAYLIST.search(string_data).group()
return Redirect(find_url)
```
```
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**Author:**  [@FredenFromSweden](https://forums.plex.tv/u/FredenFromSweden)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 3:13pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/convert-an-html-encoded-url/45714/2 "2013-10-30T15:13:44Z")
```
String.Unquote(s, usePlus=False)
```
will convert the URL into the format you are looking for.
[http://dev.plexapp.com/docs/api/utilkit.html?highlight=string.unquote#String.Unquote](http://dev.plexapp.com/docs/api/utilkit.html?highlight=string.unquote#String.Unquote)
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**Author:**  [@TehCrucible](https://forums.plex.tv/u/TehCrucible)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 10:07pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/convert-an-html-encoded-url/45714/3 "2013-10-30T22:07:17Z")
Thank you, that did the trick. I had never noticed the Utilities page in the docs. :rolleyes: There's some useful stuff there.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 12:21am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/convert-an-html-encoded-url/45714/4 "2019-12-21T00:21:19Z")
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