Django/Python encoding error while reading website

Question

I want to read content of few pages on one website, for few oh them my code works ok, but for the rest of them not. Strange chars appears: Å‚Ä… and more.

articles = ""
url = "http://www.someurl.com"
sock = urllib.urlopen(url)

content = sock.read()
sock.close()
soup = BeautifulSoup(content)

div = soup.find("div", class_="col-d")
ps = div.find_all("p")
for p in ps:
    print type(p.get_text())
    print type(p.get_text().encode('utf-8'))
    print p.get_text()

The output is:

<type 'unicode'><type 'str'>różni się znacząco. Dziś, zgodnie z danymi Lion’s House i Home Brokera, przeciętnego  zapłacić niespełna 2,1 tys. zł miesięcznie. Gdyby taką samą nieruchomość kupić na kredyt, to w pierwszym roku część ods

Do you know any solutions to make this work?

Answer 1

Here is an approach that uses the Requests library (and a random Polish website).

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

r = requests.get("http://pl.bab.la/slownik/polski-niemiecki/zgodnie-z")

soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, fromEncoding="UTF-8")
soup.find(id="showMoreCSDiv").text

This code looks for this HTML:

<div id="showMoreCSDiv"><a class="btn" id="showMoreCS" href="javascript:babGetMoreCS(20,'zgodnie z');">więcej</a></div>

It returns this:

więcej