Cheerio: How can I convert the .html() to normal text?

[chenweiyj]

Cheerio only provides $.html() to get the html string. However, all the unicode is converted like 你可能感兴趣. I want to convert these encoded html to normal text like 你可能感兴趣.

How can I do it in Node.js?

[yepninja]

$ = cheerio.load('<ul id="fruits">你可能感兴趣</ul>', {
    decodeEntities: false
});

[chenweiyj]

@alanev So if I already have a string of 你可能感兴趣, how can I get the original text?

[chenweiyj]

I find a library to convert the html entity to unicode text.

https://github.com/substack/node-ent

[lichunqiang]

Good job!

[ufo22940268]

Cool. But what is decodeEntities used for. If set it to false, it will cause parsing slower?