# Is there a way to escape the equals character in a micron in a request link with pre-set variables

_Help · started by welo on Mon, May 11, 2026 7:08 PM_

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## Original post

**welo** · Mon, May 11, 2026 7:08 PM

Youtube links have an equals character inside of them. Putting them as put of a field and collecting the url is fine but then putting that url as a link breaks a link request like "url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw" into "url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v" with the video id tag thingy being cut off. I attempted to escape the equal with a backslash but same problem occurs.

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## Reply 1

**Mark** · Tue, May 12, 2026 8:11 AM

Have you tried url-encoding it? `urllib.parse.quote_plus`

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## Reply 2

**welo** · Wed, May 13, 2026 11:01 PM

**Mark** wrote:
> Have you tried url-encoding it? `urllib.parse.quote_plus`

Yea this would probably do the trick. It's also what roogle and meshlink uses too ![image.png](/storage/forum/fSG9Pnac6YKiOdMy93ffJVX0jJEGlp4rZMY3Tg2U.png)

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