Cheerio
Cheerio is the industry-standard JavaScript library for parsing and manipulating HTML and XML using a familiar jQuery-like syntax.
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
- Repositorycheeriojs/cheerioGitHub
- LanguageTypeScript projectGitHub
- LicenseOpen source (MIT)GitHub
- Popularity30,038 GitHub stars and 1,682 forksGitHub
- Downloads48,641,152 npm downloads/monthnpm
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Sources
Verified against the cheeriojs/cheerio repository and the npm package.
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 the fastest and most elegant parsing experience in JavaScript.
Stars
30KForks
1.7KLast commit
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MITLanguage
TypeScript
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