Capture arbitrary path in Flask route
Use the path
converter to capture arbitrary length paths: <path:path>
will capture a path and pass it to the path
argument. The default converter captures a single string but stops at slashes, which is why your first url matched but the second didn't.
If you also want to match the root directory (a leading slash and empty path), you can add another rule that sets a default value for the path argument.
@app.route('/', defaults={'path': ''})
@app.route('/<path:path>')
def get_dir(path):
return path
There are other built-in converters such as int
and float
, and it's possible to write your own as well for more complex cases.