[FIXED] BeautifulSoup: How to add script src attribute with querystring without encoding the url?

Issue

I need to add a new script tag that has query parameters to my html document so I tried this:

jsmanager = self.soup.new_tag("script", src="https://example.com/myscript.js?data=test&alarm=1")
self.soup.select_one("head").append(jsmanager)

The problem is that after the script element is added the url in the src attribute looks like this:

https://example.com/myscript.js?data=test&alarm=1

Is there any way to add src attribute without html-encoding it's value? (The & thing).

Thanks in advance!

Solution

This is not actually a problem - this is valid html. Both jsmanager.get('src') and jsmanager.attrs['src'] will give the same link as you set, and jsmanager.prettify(formatter=None) will also show the tag without encoding the ampersand [the '&' character].

If you add to a html

<script src="https://example.com/myscript.js?data=test&amp;alarm=1"></script>

it should behave as intended. In fact, if you render

<a href="https://example.com/myscript.js?data=test&amp;alarm=1"></a>

and right-click on the link and then Copy link address you will be able to paste the link with the original & instead of &.

Answered By - Driftr95