Url decode UTF-8 in Python
The data is UTF-8 encoded bytes escaped with URL quoting, so you want to decode, with urllib.parse.unquote(), which handles decoding from percent-encoded data to UTF-8 bytes and then to text, transparently: from urllib.parse import unquote url = unquote(url) Demo: >>> from urllib.parse import unquote >>> url=”example.com?title=%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%8F+%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%89%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0″ >>> unquote(url) ‘example.com?title=правовая+защита’ The Python 2 equivalent is urllib.unquote(), … Read more