convert unicode of form "\uxxxxxx" to string or text

Question

I'm writing an python script which will extract the url of facebook video. But in the source of the video page, i see some characters of form \uxxxxxx in the url.

for instance url is in this form

https\u00253A\u00255C\u00252F\u00255C\u00252Ffbcdn-video-a.akamaihd.net\u00255C\u00252Fhvideo-ak-prn2\u00255C\u00252Fv\u00255C\u00252F753002_318048581647953_53890_n.mp4\u00253Foh\u00253D64e3e8ecf7e88f1da335d88949b2dc1f\u002526oe\u00253D52226D10\u002526__gda__\u00253D1377987338_9e37fb163a1d37d4b06ab7cff668f7dc\u002522\u00252C\u002522

\u00253A is colon (:), but how do i convert it.

When i did like

>>> x.decode('unicode_escape').encode('ascii','ignore')

i get

'https%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Ffbcdn-video-a.akamaihd.net%5C%2Fhvideo-ak-prn2%5C%2Fv%5C%2F753002_318048581647953_53890_n.mp4%3Foh%3D64e3e8ecf7e88f1da335d88949b2dc1f%26oe%3D52226D10%26__gda__%3D1377987338_9e37fb163a1d37d4b06ab7cff668f7dc%22%2C%22

I want exact url not percentage.

I searched a lot but couldn't find any help.

Thanks in advance

Edit

Is there any way if I pass the whole source of facebook page and then convert all such complex unicode character to simple one.

Answer 1

>>> import urllib
>>> s = b'https\u00253A\u00255C\u00252F\u00255C\u00252Ffbcdn-video'
>>> print urllib.unquote_plus(s.decode('unicode_escape'))
https:\/\/fbcdn-video

It seems that your string is backslashed.

>>> import re
>>> import urllib
>>> s = b'https\u00253A\u00255C\u00252F\u00255C\u00252Ffbcdn-video'
>>> re.sub(r'\\(.)', r'\1', urllib.unquote_plus(s.decode('unicode_escape')))
u'https://fbcdn-video'