How to extract part of URL between two different characters with scrapy

Question

I have url that has a following structure:

https://example.com/string?rest

I am trying to extract only the 'string' part and so far I can only think of using

response.url.split('/')[3]

to extract everything after third '/' Is it possible to extract the part after third '/' and before the '?' sign?

Answer 1

Might be able to use something in urllib.parse :

from urllib.parse import urlparse
print(urlparse(response.url).path.split('/')[-1])