Escape urls to fix unicode bug

bookmarkstokml.py

@@ -8,11 +8,13 @@ from lxml.html import document_fromstring
 import simplekml
 
 from urllib.request import FancyURLopener
+from urllib.parse import quote_plus, urlparse, parse_qsl
 
 import os
 import re
 import sys
 import time
+import random
 
 coords_in_content = re.compile('\/@(-?\d+\.\d+),(-?\d+\.\d+),')
 user_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.73 Safari/537.36'
@@ -27,6 +29,7 @@ with open(filename) as bookmarks_file:
 
 doc = document_fromstring(data)
 
+
 class Browser(FancyURLopener):
     version = user_agent
 
@@ -36,10 +39,13 @@ for label in doc.body.iterfind('dl/dt/h3'):
     kml = simplekml.Kml()
     kml.document.name = labelName
 
-    for element, attribute, url, pos in label.getparent().getnext().iterlinks():
+    for element, _, url, _ in label.getparent().getnext().iterlinks():
         if 'maps.google' in url:
-            print
             description = element.text or ''
+            safe_query = ['{0}={1}'.format(k, quote_plus(v))
+                          for (k, v) in parse_qsl(urlparse(url).query)]
+            url = '{0}/?{1}'.format(url.split('/?')[0], '&'.join(safe_query))
+
             print('GET {0} {1}'.format(url, description.encode('UTF8')))
             browser = Browser()
 
@@ -47,7 +53,7 @@ for label in doc.body.iterfind('dl/dt/h3'):
             sock = False
             while not sock:
                 try:
-                    sock = browser.open(url.replace(' ','+'))
+                    sock = browser.open(url)
                 except Exception as e:
                     print('Connection problem:' + repr(e))
                     print('Retrying randomly between 15 and 60 seconds.')
@@ -62,7 +68,8 @@ for label in doc.body.iterfind('dl/dt/h3'):
                 longitude = coords[1]
 
             except (AttributeError, IndexError):
-                print('[Coordinates not found: ' + str(coords) + '. Try to update "user_agent"]')
+                print('[Coordinates not found: ' + str(coords) +
+                      '. Try to update "user_agent"]')
                 continue
 
             print(latitude, longitude)