trouble passing the literal '#' part of the URL

I'm using Applescript and the:
do shell script "open -a Safari 'URL'" command to send the freetext URL to the API page. Everything is formed correctly except for the literal '#'

So, the command above ends up sending this, which doesn't work:
http://www.playlist-converter.net/%23/freetext=Mary%20Had%20A%20Little%20Lamb%20-%20Frank%20Palmer%0AHappy%20Birthday%20to%20You%20-%20James%20Hamilton

Do you have any suggestions for passing the literal '#' rather than the %23 that's getting sent from bash's open command?

Hi,
not sure. Do you have the shell script ? maybe do a gist o github ?

Thanks for answering. My issue ended up having to do with URL encoding on my end (different methods of posting the data to your site encoded differently). I finally found a method of posting the data as a literal string so that no encoding was done midstream.

Glad to to here that !