Decoding in utf-8 in parsed data from website via Python

Question

I am trying to parse data from website and I am getting an error. Here's my python code

import urllib.request
import re

url = "http://ihned.cz"

req = urllib.request.Request(url)
resp = urllib.request.urlopen(req)
respData = resp.read().decode('utf-8')
#print(respData) #html kód

authors = re.findall(r'data-author="(.*?)"', str(respData))

for author in authors:
    print(authors)

And here's the error.

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe1 in position 368: invalid continuation byte

Can you please help me? Thank you.

timgeb · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-24 11:34:45Z

2

The source of that website says charset="windows-1250". Try decode('windows-1250').

answered May 24, 2017 at 11:34

timgeb

79.2k20 gold badges129 silver badges150 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

Decoding in utf-8 in parsed data from website via Python

1 Answer 1

Comments

Your Answer

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

1 Answer 1

Comments

Your Answer

Sign up or log in

Post as a guest

Related