Scrape the absolute URL instead of a relative path in python

In this case urlparse.urljoin helps you. You should modify your code like this-

import bs4 as bs4
import urllib.request
from urlparse import  urljoin

web_url = 'https:www.example-page-xl.com'
sauce = urllib.request.urlopen(web_url).read()
soup = bs.BeautifulSoup(sauce,'lxml')

section = soup.section

for url in section.find_all('a'):
    print urljoin(web_url,url.get('href'))

here urljoin manage absolute and relative paths.

urllib.parse.urljoin() might help. It does a join, but it is smart about it and handles both relative and absolute paths. Note this is python 3 code.

>>> import urllib.parse
>>> base = 'https://www.example-page-xl.com'

>>> urllib.parse.urljoin(base, '/helloworld/index.php') 
'https://www.example-page-xl.com/helloworld/index.php'

>>> urllib.parse.urljoin(base, 'https://www.example-page-xl.com/helloworld/index.php')
'https://www.example-page-xl.com/helloworld/index.php'

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