[FIXED] Unnecessary HTML output with Scrapy

Issue

I am scraping the HTML of the h1 tag. The selector only targets the h1 tag but when I print it, it also prints an unnecessary HTML with the h1 tag.

import requests 
from scrapy.selector import Selector

r = requests.get('https://www.catholicgallery.org/mass-reading/310122/')
resp = Selector(text=r.text)
h1 = resp.xpath('//h1[@class="tdb-title-text"]').get()
print(h1)

output:

Solution

It looks like it is affected by this issue:
scrapy/parsel: HTML code extraction from node is not working #228

It is reported that downgrading libxml to 2.9.10 can solve this issue.

Answered By - Georgiy