What it can do
- Decode named entities
- Decode decimal and hexadecimal entities
- Preserve surrounding text
How the recipe works
From HTML Entity
Replace each entity reference with its Unicode character.
Demonstration
Sample input
Serialize & data: <safe> 🚀Expected result
Serialize & data: <safe> 🚀When to use it
- Web scraping cleanup
- Email and HTML inspection
- Nested web-encoding exercises
Adapt it
Follow with URL Decode when a value contains both percent encoding and HTML entities.
Source and verification
Adapted from TryHackMe: CyberChef — The Basics. The explanation and sample are written for Serialize, use synthetic or documentation-safe data, and are checked against the current operation catalogue. The workflow runs locally without an external API call.