How to extract raw html from a Scrapy selector?

Question

I\'m extracting js data using response.xpath(\'//*\')re_first() and later converting it to python native data. The problem is extract/re methods don\'t seem to provide a way

Answer 1

Since parsel 1.2.0 (2017-05-17) you can pass replace_entities=False to both re and re_first to avoid the default behavior.