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How can i convert html entities in my twitter bot?

i'm a begginer programmer and i'm having troubles with my twitter bot. The idea of the bot is tweet an daily verse of bible everyday, and that's what I got so far:

import tweepy
import requests

api = tweepy.Client(
    consumer_key='',
    consumer_secret='',
    access_token='-',
    access_token_secret='',
)
response = requests.get("https://www.biblegateway.com/votd/get/?format=json&version=NVI-PT")
verse_of_the_day = response.json()["votd"]["text"]

try:
    tweet=api.create_tweet(text=("Aqui está o versículo do dia: \n") + verse_of_the_day)
    print(tweet)
except:
    print("something is wrong")

the problem is that some characters appear as HTML entity and not as the "character itself" and what I hope is to fix these characters that are in html entity

Solution

  • You can unescape the HTML entities using the html.unescape() function

    import tweepy
import requests
import html

api = tweepy.Client(
    consumer_key='',
    consumer_secret='',
    access_token='-',
    access_token_secret='',
)
response = requests.get("https://www.biblegateway.com/votd/get/?format=json&version=NVI-PT")
verse_of_the_day = html.unescape(response.json()["votd"]["text"]) #unescapes the string

try:
    tweet=api.create_tweet(text=("Aqui está o versículo do dia: \n") + verse_of_the_day)
    print(tweet)
except:
    print("something is wrong")