BeautifulSoup HTML parser modifies a tag href

Question

While using BeautifulSoup to parse and extract all URLs present in an email, when <a> tags are extracted, the href value has a modified value than that present in a tag.

Sample code:

import bs4
soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(html_code)
for link in soup.findAll("a"):
 print(link)
 url = link.get("href")
 print(url)
 if url and "http" in url:
 html_urls.append(url)

link

<a class="email-link email-textGray email-underline" href="https://medium.com/me/email-settings/276173762aee/75e6c9e76dd0?source=email-276173762aee-1573712256115-digest.reader-------------------------785f89d2_b50d_45eb_8b5e_7392fe13f6cf&amp;type=social" style="color: #8e8e8e; text-decoration: underline;">Unsubscribe</a>

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Type: <class 'bs4.element.Tag'>

Notice the replacement of & with &

Could someone please point out why so and what exactly is happening? Traced the code in bs4 as well but couldn't find any leads.

• sjlee: I think beautifulSoup changes the ‘HTML Character Entity’ like ‘&’ to what it actually means like ‘&’. If you don’t want this, do stackoverflow.com/questions/23191624/…
• αԋɱҽԃ αмєяιcαη: i don't understand what you want to do ? you want to escape the characters ? check
• cisnik: I want the URLs in href to remain intact. But link.get('href') returns modified values.