Decode HTML entities in a string in Python

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Decode HTML entities in a string in Python

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I'm using Python 3 to access a web API. The response of the requests comes in the JSON pattern and my problem is that one of the strings is encoded with HTML entities (specifically accent).

For example:

"orienta&ccedil;&atilde;o-a-objetos"

Is there a parser that returns me the strings with the resolved HTML characters?

html python python-3.x htmlentities

asked by anonymous 02.12.2014 / 19:59

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score 5 · Answer 1

I found this one, for Python 3.4+:

>>> import html
>>> html.unescape('orienta&ccedil;&atilde;o-a-objetos')
'orientação-a-objetos'

In the case of Python 3 (versions prior to 3.4):

>>> import html.parser
>>> h = html.parser.HTMLParser()
>>> h.unescape('orienta&ccedil;&atilde;o-a-objetos')
'orientação-a-objetos'

score 0 · Answer 2

You can also use Beautifulsoup, bs4 for Py3 + or bs for Py3-, which in addition to converting HTML encoding to ascii, also allows you to work with HTML elements individually (if any in the input string).

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
s='orienta&ccedil;&atilde;o-a-objetos'
t = BeautifulSoup(s, 'html.parser')
print(t.get_text())