[Parse lxml ERR] Unicode strings with encoding declaration are not supported. Please use bytes input or XML fragments without declaration.

[prateek-chaurasia]

When I am trying newspaper.build('http://www.venturebeat.com')
It give me these errors
[Parse lxml ERR] Unicode strings with encoding declaration are not supported. Please use bytes input or XML fragments without declaration.
[Category parse ERR] http://feeds.venturebeat.com

Can you please help or let me know what might be the issue.

[codelucas]

Great find! This has been fixed in both branches (python3 and 2)

Before:

>>> import newspaper
>>> newspaper.build('http://www.venturebeat.com')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/.../newspaper-env/newspaper/newspaper/parsers.py", line 60, in fromstring
    cls.doc = lxml.html.fromstring(html)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/lxml/html/__init__.py", line 706, in fromstring
    doc = document_fromstring(html, parser=parser, base_url=base_url, **kw)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/lxml/html/__init__.py", line 600, in document_fromstring
    value = etree.fromstring(html, parser, **kw)
  File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 3032, in lxml.etree.fromstring (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:68121)
  File "parser.pxi", line 1781, in lxml.etree._parseMemoryDocument (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:102435)
ValueError: Unicode strings with encoding declaration are not supported. Please use bytes input or XML fragments without declaration.
<newspaper.source.Source object at 0x100eaad30>

After:

>>> import newspaper
>>> newspaper.build('http://www.venturebeat.com')
<newspaper.source.Source object at 0x1031f0d30>

[codelucas]

Here is the python3 fix (which you're probably using):
800651c