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Cheerio

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Cheerio is a JavaScript library for parsing and manipulating HTML and XML using a familiar jQuery-like syntax.

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Cheerio is a fast, flexible HTML and XML parsing library that brings jQuery's elegant syntax to server-side JavaScript.

Key Features:

  • jQuery Syntax - Use familiar selectors and methods to traverse and manipulate the DOM
  • Blazing Performance - Works with a lightweight DOM model for incredibly efficient parsing
  • Cross-Environment - Runs in both Node.js and browser environments seamlessly
  • Forgiving Parser - Handles malformed HTML gracefully without crashing
  • Lightweight - No browser engine overhead, just pure HTML parsing and manipulation
  • Ecosystem - Pairs perfectly with Crawlee, Axios, and other scraping tools

Whether you're building web scrapers, processing HTML templates, or extracting structured data from web pages, Cheerio provides HTML and XML parsing for JavaScript.

Reviewed profile

Quick verdict

Cheerio is for JavaScript teams that need fast jQuery-style HTML or XML parsing after they fetch pages themselves. It does not run browser JavaScript, so dynamic sites need another tool.

Best for
  • Node.js parsing pipelines
  • jQuery-style selectors
  • HTML and XML cleanup
  • High-volume static pages
Not ideal for
  • JavaScript-rendered pages
  • Hosted scraping operations
  • Non-JavaScript SDK needs
Last verified
Jun 26, 2026

Key facts

    Categories:
    Features:
    HTML ParsingXML ParsingCSS SelectorsStructured ExtractionOpen Source

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    Source code

    cheeriojs/cheerio

    • Stars

      30.5K
    • Forks

      1.7K
    • Last commit

      2026-10-15
    • License

      MIT
    • Language

      TypeScript

    Metrics recorded 2026-10-16

    Repository details

    License source: Repository license file

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