Encoded string with percent signs in it

Question

In my scraping project I encountered a data point containing a string in the following form

string = "d%61b%69a%5f%62%65%79@yaho%6f.fr"
target_string = dabia_bey@yahoo.fr

What encoding change should I do to wrongly encoded strings? How can I scrape these broken strings correctly?

Thank you

No sure what you are asking...could you give an example output? What are you looking to do? — Jacob Glik, Mar 05 '22 at 02:33
I am looking for someone to identify the correct encoding or encyription. — avakado0, Mar 05 '22 at 02:35
What is the "*correct encoding*" do you want to remove the "%" chars from the string? is this an encrypted message? — Jacob Glik, Mar 05 '22 at 02:35
https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.parse.html#urllib.parse.unquote - `unquote(string)` — Iain Shelvington, Mar 05 '22 at 02:35
The term you're looking for is "url encoding": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding — Brian61354270, Mar 05 '22 at 02:37

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 05 '22 at 02:37

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you need urllib unquote

>>> from urllib.parse import unquote
>>> unquote("d%61b%69a%5f%62%65%79@yaho%6f.fr")
'dabia_bey@yahoo.fr'

answered Mar 05 '22 at 02:37

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