# URL Decoding to ASCII Characters in the Album Parser Script

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/url-decoding-to-ascii-characters-in-the-album-parser-script/11477
**Category:** Web Sources Discussion
**Created:** [January 21, 2011, 12:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/url-decoding-to-ascii-characters-in-the-album-parser-script/11477 "2011-01-21T12:16:21Z")
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### Author: ![pone](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/pone/32/272_2.png) [@pone](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pone)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2011, 12:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/url-decoding-to-ascii-characters-in-the-album-parser-script/11477/1 "2011-01-21T12:16:21Z")

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For my discogs scripts I would like to implement a way to parse the _Discogs Standard Name_ if a _Discogs Name Variation_ is used for a release.  
But this name is only hidden in a link where it is URL-encoded. Is there a way to decode URLs in the album parser to get the correct ASCII Character.

like here: [http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref\_urlencode.asp](http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp)  
%21 \> !  
%22 \> "  
%23 \> #  
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